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    3D-printable Persian Daric Coin

    TLDR: Just posted this .stl for 3d printing to Thingiverse at https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5897427. The first coin I posted was of the Lydian Stater, for that see https://krypted.com/the-history-of-computing/lydian-stater-coin-design-for-3d-printing-and-why/. To continue our journey of the history of coins and why these matter: The Lydian Lion coin was minted initially be the father of Croessius and then by Crosseus ihimself in the early years of the 500s BCE. Cyrus the Great introducd the concept of coinage in the Persian empire with the daric, after he defeated Coesus of Lydia some time after 546 BCE. By the end of the 500s and early 400s, two rulers later, Darius I defined that a gold coin would…