Ezra 2:69

They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the world threescore and one thousand drachms of gold ,.... These "darcemons or darics" were a Persian coin; one of which, according to Brerewood F11 De Pret. & Ponder. Vet. Num. ch. iii. v. , was of the value of fifteen shillings of our money, and so this quantity of them amounted to 45,750 pounds; but according to Bishop Cumberland F12 Scripture Weights & Measures, ch. 4. p. 115. they were of the value of twenty shillings and four pence of our money, and so came to upwards of 61,000 pounds; these everyone, according to his ability, put into the common stock or treasury for the work of building the temple; the Vulgate Latin F13 Sixtus V. Lovain & MSS. in James ut supra. (Contrariety of Popish Bibles, p. 295) reads 40,000:

and five thousand pounds of silver ; and an Hebrew "mina", or pound, being of our money seven pounds, ten shillings, according to Brerewood F14 Ut supra, (De Pret. & Ponder. Vet. Num.) ch. iv. v. , amounted to 31,250 pounds: but others F15 Universal History, vol. 10. p. 183, marg. , reckoning a drachm of gold at ten shillings, and a mina or pound of silver at nine pounds, make the whole to amount only to 75,500 pounds of our money:

and one hundred priests' garments ; which, as they were laid up among treasures, so were necessary for the service of the temple.