The widespread use of coinage postdates Tanakh. ...
Not quite. The earliest coin in widespread use was the daric, introduced
by and named after Darius I of Persia, 521-486 BCE. It is mentioned in
the Tanakh (Hebrew DARK:MON, 'ADARKON) in 1 Chronicles 29:7, Ezra 2:69,
8:27, Nehemiah 7:69,70,71. All but Ezra 2:69 are technically
anachronistic as, apart from 1 Chronicles 29:7, they seem to date to the
reign of Cyrus who preceded Darius. But presumably the author of these
books restated the amounts of gold in terms of the units he or she was
familiar with.
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Peter Kirk
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