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ドゥカート
Sign in to savethumb|Austrian gold ducat depicting Kaiser Franz Joseph I of Austria|Franz-Josef, The ducat ( ) coin was used as a trade coin in Europe from the later Middle Ages to the 19th century. Its most familiar version, the gold ducat or sequin containing around of 98.6% fine gold, originated in Venice in 1284 and gained wide international acceptance over the centuries. Similarly named silver ducatons also existed. The gold ducat circulated along with the Florentine florin and preceded the modern British pound sterling.
The ducat was a gold coin widely used for trade across Europe from the late Middle Ages through the 1800s, originating in Venice around 1284 and containing roughly 98.6% pure gold. Its reliability and high gold content made it one of the most internationally accepted trade coins of its era, circulating alongside other major currencies like the Florentine florin.
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- 1284-00-00
- Commons category
- Ducato
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- Ducat
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2000-00-00
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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ドゥカート（イタリア語: ducato、ハンガリー語: dukát、オランダ語: dukaat、ドイツ語: Dukat, Dukaten [duˈkaːt(ən)]、英語: ducat [ˈdʌkət]）は、中世後期から20世紀の後半頃までヨーロッパで使用された硬貨。同時期を通じて、多様な金属で作られた様々なドゥカートが存在した。ヴェネツィア共和国のドゥカート金貨は、中世のヒュペルピュロンやフローリン、または現代の英ポンドや米ドルのように国際通貨として広く受け入れられていた。
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