Charles Ellicott Commentary Esther 3:9

"If it please the king, let it be written that they be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those that have the charge of the [king`s] business, to bring it into the king`s treasuries." — Esther 3:9 (ASV)

Ten thousand talents of silver. —This would be about two and a half million pounds sterling, being indeed more than two-thirds of the whole annual revenue of the Empire (Herod. iii. 95). Haman may have been a man of excessive wealth (like Pythius, who offered Xerxes four million gold darics (Herod. vii. 28)), or he probably may have hoped to draw the money from the spoils of the Jews.