Museums in Tehran

Mr. Malek, very very rich trader

a) Presently, there are 36000 volumes of printed books 18,000 excellent manuscripts, lithography and typography; some of them are the oldest ones.

 b) The other part of the Collection, is Museum, consists of variety halls:

1-Coin's Hall: Coins from pre-Islamic (Achaemenian and Sassanian) to Islamic period (Abbasids, Samanian, Qajar,...); also there are the coins of Imam Reza's nomination.

2- Stamp's Hall: In this hall, there are different kinds of valuable stamps from different countries.

3- Carpet's Hall: Precious carpets of well known carpet weavers, Amoqli, Saber, Haj Abdol,...  are shown.

4- Art's Gallery: In this Gallery there are objects and portraits of scientists and politicians, Black Veil of "Cabba" in Filigree Work and Miniatures of Iranian and Indian painters.

The most outstanding among its collections are:
A stamp collection unique in the Middle East; 13 paintings by Kamalol-molk; a collection of oil paintings by Benetti, Lorrin and Halaf; a superb collection of pen-cases; a coin minted when Imam Reza was heir to the throne; miniature paintings and calligraphic pages.

The daric was a gold coin used within the Persian Empire. It weighs around eight grams and bears the image of the Persian king or a great warrior armed with a bow and arrow, but who is depicted is not known for sure. The coin was introduced by King Darius I of Persia some time between 522 BC and 486 BC and ended with Alexander the great's invasion in 330 BCE.

The coin is mentioned several times in the Old Testament, as the children of Israel came into contact with it when their Babylonian conquerors were conquered by Persia.

In 1 Chronicles 29, David was asking an assembly of people to donate for the construction of the Temple. The people gave generously "toward the work on the temple of God five thousand talents and ten thousand darics of gold, ten thousand talents of silver, eighteen thousand talents of bronze and a hundred thousand talents of iron." Since David's reign is believed to be between c. 1011 and c. 971 BCE according to Old Testament chronology, the use of the daric is regarded as a serious anachronism.

There is also a double daric issued either by Darius or Alexander arround 350 BCE- 330 BCE but information on this is scarce.

Some, such as the Ancient Greeks, believed that this coin's name is derived from the name Darius, but in reality it appears to be derived from a Persian word meaning "gold"; in Middle Persian it is called zarig.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daric

Babylon under Iranian rule

Farnabaz??!!, Achaemenid