Ducat

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The name of a foreign coin. The ducat, or sequin, was originally a gold coin of the middle ages, apparently a descendant from the bezant of the GreekRoman empire. For many centuries it constituted the principal international currency, being intended, or supposed, to be made of pure gold, though subsequently settled at a basis a little below. It is now nearly obsolete in every part of the world. Its average value is about $2.26 of our money. It is said they appeared earliest in Venice, and that they bore the following motto: Sit tibi, Christe, datus, quern tu regis, iste Ducatus, whence the name ducat. The silver ducat was formerly a coin of Naples, weighing three hundred and fortyeight grains, eight hundred and forty-two thousandths fine; consequent value, in our money, about eighty-one cents; but it now exists only as a money of account.

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The name of a foreign coin. The ducat, or sequin, was originally a gold coin of the middle ages, apparently a descendant from the bezant of the GreekRoman empire. For many centuries it constituted the principal international currency, being intended, or supposed, to be made of pure gold, though subsequently settled at a basis a little below. It is now nearly obsolete in every part of the world. Its average value is about $2.26 of our money. It is said they appeared earliest in Venice, and that they bore the following motto: Sit tibi, Christe, datus, quern tu regis, iste Ducatus, whence the name ducat. The silver ducat was formerly a coin of Naples, weighing three hundred and fortyeight grains, eight hundred and forty-two thousandths fine; consequent value, in our money, about eighty-one cents; but it now exists only as a money of account.

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