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Ezra 8:27

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams (see comment on Ezra 2:69). The "basons" would be worth about £55 each. Fine copper, precious as gold. The metal intended is probably that known to the Romans as orichalchum, which is generally believed to have been brass, but which may have been a more complicated amalgam.

Being rarely, and perhaps only accidentally, produced, this metal was highly valued.

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