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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 369371, member: 112&quot;]I&#039;m reasonably certain that the second coin is a fake. According to the legends it was issued by Marcantonio Giustinian - Doge of Venice 1684-1688, but all of those ducats were gold and this one is definitely not. There are design discrepancies as well. It is most likely a modern fake. You need to understand though, a modern fake could be 200 years old, though I suspect this one is not.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, there was a silver ducat issued in the mid 1500&#039;s, but it had an entirely different design. You read about it here - <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=zVV6nBde4CQC&amp;pg=PA635&amp;lpg=PA635&amp;dq=+%22silver+ducat%22+Venice&amp;source=web&amp;ots=ut5r1N3g2R&amp;sig=UYX3c84GqYrr6JKq9IGGRDDr578&amp;hl=en#PPA635,M1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://books.google.com/books?id=zVV6nBde4CQC&amp;pg=PA635&amp;lpg=PA635&amp;dq=+%22silver+ducat%22+Venice&amp;source=web&amp;ots=ut5r1N3g2R&amp;sig=UYX3c84GqYrr6JKq9IGGRDDr578&amp;hl=en#PPA635,M1" rel="nofollow">Click Here</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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