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Brass handle weight of 500 Ducats sonder sack. Mass 1750 grams. Titled and marked. On the body with year letters of which the first the Q from 1702 and the last the L from 1819.
Brass handle weight of 500 Ducats sonder sack. Mass 1750 grams. Titled and marked. On the body with year letters of which the first the Q from 1702 and the last the L from 1819.
  1. (n) ducat
    formerly a gold coin of various European countries
Illustrations
Silver necklace with six 18th century silver coins attached: three from Holland (two ducat pieces) and three from Zeeland (Scheepjesschellingen). The necklace has a toggle stick as a clasp. The oval chain mail is riveted two in two chain mail, but one staggered each time. One of the Dutch coins is from 1749 and two from 1759. Of the Zeeland coins (Middelburg), one is from 1790 and two from 1780.
Silver necklace with six 18th century silver coins attached: three from Holland (two ducat pieces) and three from Zeeland (Scheepjesschellingen). The necklace has a toggle stick as a clasp. The oval chain mail is riveted two in two chain mail, but one staggered each time. One of the Dutch coins is from 1749 and two from 1759. Of the Zeeland coins (Middelburg), one is from 1790 and two from 1780.
Brass handle weight of 1000 Ducats sonder sack. Mass 3500 grams. Titled and marked. On the hull with year letters: Q1702 - L 1819 (first and last year).
Brass handle weight of 1000 Ducats sonder sack. Mass 3500 grams. Titled and marked. On the hull with year letters: Q1702 - L 1819 (first and last year).
Bronze weight for 200 silver Ducats with the sack. Mass 5600 grams. Marked and titled. A number of calibration marks with the years 1700-1819 appear on the hull, including the calibration mark of SG Nagel.
Bronze weight for 200 silver Ducats with the sack. Mass 5600 grams. Marked and titled. A number of calibration marks with the years 1700-1819 appear on the hull, including the calibration mark of SG Nagel.
Diamond-shaped emergency coin worth 2 ducats. Front: in round stamp: standing St. Maurits with banner in left hand and coat of arms in right hand between letters S and M; in corners, clockwise: letters C, E, B and I. Reverse: in round stamp: standing St. Maurice with banner in left and coat of arms in right hand between letters S and M inside pearl rim in left and right corner: year.
Diamond-shaped emergency coin worth 2 ducats. Front: in round stamp: standing St. Maurits with banner in left hand and coat of arms in right hand between letters S and M; in corners, clockwise: letters C, E, B and I. Reverse: in round stamp: standing St. Maurice with banner in left and coat of arms in right hand between letters S and M inside pearl rim in left and right corner: year.
Sheet with 16 scenes from the story of the medal and the ducat. A caption below each image. Numbered lower left: No. 87.
Sheet with 16 scenes from the story of the medal and the ducat. A caption below each image. Numbered lower left: No. 87.
Four allegorical figures hunt for a symbolic ducat with chicken legs. In the margin verses in Latin, French and Dutch.
Four allegorical figures hunt for a symbolic ducat with chicken legs. In the margin verses in Latin, French and Dutch.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Ducat
    A coin, either of gold or silver, of several countries in Europe; originally, one struck in the dominions of a duke.☞ The gold ducat is generally of the value of nine shillings and four pence sterling, or somewhat more that two dollars. The silver ducat is of about half this value.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) ducat
    A gold coin of varying form and value, formerly in use in several European countries. A ducat was first issued in Apulia, about the middle of the twelfth century, by the Norman duke Roger II. In 1283 a gold ducat was struck in Venice, but the piece was afterward called a zecchino (sequin), the ducat becoming only a money of account. (See def. 2.) The earliest gold coins of Germany seem to have been called ducats, and this name was applied to German gold coins of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Gold coins called ducats were also issued in the Netherlands, in Hungary, and elsewhere. The value of the ducat varied but little, the coin usually containing from 3.42 to 3.44 grams of fine gold, worth from $2.27 to $2.32.
  2. (n) ducat
    An old money of account in the Venetian republic.
  3. (n) ducat
    plural Money; cash.
  4. (n) ducat
    An Austrian weight for gold, which has been determined by Vienna authorities to be 3.490896 grams. This unit is supposed to have been derived through the Jews from the Ptolemaic drachma of 3.56 grams.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Ducat
    duk′at a gold coin, formerly much used on the Continent, its commonest value being about 9s. 4d., though there were silver ducats in Italy worth 3s. 4d
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary F. ducat, It. ducato, LL. ducatus, fr. dux, leader or commander. See Duke

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary O. Fr. ducat—It. ducato—ducatus, a duchy. The name was applied to an Apulian silver coin of 1140. The first gold ducat struck at Venice in 1284 bore the legend—'Sit tibi Christe datus quem tu regis iste Ducatus' ('Be this duchy, which thou rulest, dedicated to thee, O Christ'), which may have helped to spread the name, though it did not originate it.

Usage in the news

Mosca rocks ya, no insane ducats, on Sat/28. sfbg.com

A native and resident of Bowling Green, Cindy Ducat is mother to three children and a two-year old niece. gte.org

E DUCATION funding is often touted as an investment in future economic growth. newsok.com

I failed - twice - to come away with the prized ducats. 5280.com

Producers of a Sandy benefit concert said scam artists are hawking fake tickets to the star-studded event, just a day after it was revealed that scalpers were reselling ducats at astronomical prices. nypost.com

John Ducat, TRHS GIRLS SOCCER COACH. telegram.com

Now, not only was I lucky enough to be in Las Vegas during the grand opening of the casino, I was also fortunate to have a ducat to the opening night of Le Rêve, Wynn 's contribution to the Las Vegas theatre scene. livedesignonline.com

Usage in literature

Under Sextus IV the courtesans at Rome paid a tax which produced 20,000 ducats per annum. "Folkways" by William Graham Sumner

Dead for a ducat, dead! "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies" by James McNeill Whistler

We find him at one time receiving 8000 ducats a month as war-pay from Naples, with a peace pension of 6000. "New Italian sketches" by John Addington Symonds

When Michael Angelo heard that two hundred ducats had been paid for his Cupid, he knew that he had been deceived. "A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture" by Clara Erskine Clement

Then follows, in the same document, his own settlement upon his wife, which is stated to be one hundred ducats. "Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The profession of a water-witch did not bring enough ducats to the Smith family; so the attempt was made to find hidden treasures. "Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880" by Various

He had a fine collection of flutes, all made by the same man, and for which he paid a hundred ducats a-piece. "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348" by Various

He who tricked you can tell to a ducat. "Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom" by Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger

The king was so much pleased that he slipped a bag full of ducats into the young man's pocket, along with the letter. "Anecdotes for Boys" by Harvey Newcomb

And Lodovico sent one hundred ducats to the soldier of Mirandola, because he fought so well. "Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497" by Julia Mary Cartwright

Usage in poetry
Scorn'd be the wretch that quits his genial bowl,
His loves, his friendships, even his self resigns;
Perverts the sacred instinct of his soul,
And to a ducat's dirty sphere confines.
"Elegy IX. He Describes His Disinterestedness to a Friend" by William Shenstone Author object (719)