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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 6261601, member: 115909&quot;]Hey everyone,</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been thinking about the next Ancient coin I want to pick up and I&#039;ve finally decided on picking up a Persian Gold Daric.</p><p><br /></p><p>I love that it has <b>so </b>much historical significance and is actually mentioned by the legendary Ancient historian Plutarch.</p><p><br /></p><p>Agesilaus was a Spartan King who lived between 444 BC - 360 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 394, while encamped on the plain of Thebe, Agesilaus was planning a campaign in the interior of Asia Minor, or even an attack on Artaxerxes II himself, when he was recalled to Greece to fight in the Corinthian War between Sparta and the combined forces of Athens, Thebes, Corinth, Argos and several minor states.</p><p><br /></p><p>The outbreak of the conflict had been encouraged by Persian payments to Sparta&#039;s Greek rivals. Tens of thousands of Darics, the main currency in Achaemenid coinage, were used to bribe the Greek states to start a war against Sparta.</p><p><br /></p><p>According to Plutarch, Agesilaus said upon leaving Asia Minor &quot;I have been driven out by 10,000 Persian archers&quot;, a reference to &quot;Archers&quot; (<i>Toxotai</i>) the Greek nickname for the Darics from their obverse design, because that much money had been paid to politicians in Athens and Thebes in order to start a war against Sparta.[ATTACH=full]1248004[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1248005[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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