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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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O ducado foi uma antiga moeda, de 3,5 g de ouro de 0,986 de pureza, cunhada em diversas épocas e em vários Estados europeus. Foi também uma unidade monetária imaginária, equivalente a 375 maravedis de prata, utilizada para fixar transacções internacionais. O ducado foi originalmente introduzido em circulação pela República de Veneza, no ano de 1284, durante o governo do doge (1280-1289), com uma moeda que apresentava no anverso a efígie do doge ajoelhado frente a São Marcos, santo padroeiro de Veneza, e no reverso a imagem de Jesus.
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