Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.

And twenty cups of gold, of a thousand solids, and two vessels of the best shining brass, beautiful as gold.

and twenty basons of gold, of a thousand darics; and two vessels of shining copper, precious as gold.

Also twenty basins of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.

and basins of gold twenty, of a thousand drams, and two vessels of good shining brass, desirable as gold.

And twenty gold basins, of a thousand darics, and two vessels of the best bright brass, equal in value to gold.

and twenty bowls of gold, of one thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright bronze, precious as gold.

and twenty gold bowls which had the weight of one thousand coins, and two vessels of the finest shining brass, as beautiful as gold.

Twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams - Not of a thousand drams (i. e., darics) each, but worth altogether a thousand darics. As the value of the daric was about 22 shillings of British money, each basin, or saucer, would have been worth (apart from the fashioning) 55 British pounds.
Of fine copper - The word translated "fine," which occurs here only, is thought to mean either "yellow" or "glittering" (see the margin). Probably the vessels were of orichalcum, an amalgam which was either brass or something nearly approaching to brass, but which was very rarely produced in the ancient world, and, when produced, was regarded as highly valuable.

Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand (i) drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
(i) Read (Ezra 2:69).

Also twenty basins of gold, of a thousand drams,.... Which were upwards of 1000 pounds of our money; for Bishop Cumberland says (e), the Persian "daric", "drachma", or "drachm", weighed twenty shillings and four pence; and, according to Dr. Bernard, it exceeded one of our guineas by two grains; see Gill on 1-Chronicles 29:7.
and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold; which perhaps is the same with the Indian or Persian brass Aristotle (f) speaks of, which is so bright and pure, and free from rust, that it cannot be known by its colour from gold, and that there are among the cups of Darius such as cannot be discerned whether they are brass or gold but by the smell: the Syriac version interprets it by Corinthian brass, which was a mixture of gold, silver, and copper, made when Corinth was burnt, and which is exceeding valuable; of which Pliny (g) makes three sorts, very precious, and of which he says, it is in value next to, and even before silver, and almost before gold; but this sort of brass was not as yet in being: Kimchi (h) interprets the word here of its colour, being next to the colour of gold.
(e) Scripture Weights and Measures, ch. 4. p. 115. (f) De Mirabilibus, p. 704, vol. 1. (g) Nat. Hist. l. 34. c. 1, 2. (h) Sepher Shorash. rad.

two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold--Almost all commentators agree in maintaining that the vessels referred to were not made of copper, but of an alloy capable of taking on a bright polish, which we think highly probable, as copper was then in common use among the Babylonians, and would not be as precious as gold. This alloy, much esteemed among the Jews, was composed of gold and other metals, which took on a high polish and was not subject to tarnish [NOYES].