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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2283701, member: 112&quot;]The ducat is a coin, you might even say &quot;the&quot; coin, that literally changed the world, and did it more than once. More than any other coin the ducat made the world what it is today. But to understand and really appreciate the ducat one has to know a bit about it&#039;s history. I wrote this quite a few years ago, 2003 I think it was, and it gives a basic overview of the ducat - <a href="http://www.winsociety.org/newsletter/ducats/ducats.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.winsociety.org/newsletter/ducats/ducats.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.winsociety.org/newsletter/ducats/ducats.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>As you&#039;ll see after reading that, just about everybody minted a ducat. It was the single most popular denomination in the western world. But it was with the advent of the Netherlands ducat that it became the predominant denomination. And one of the things that caught and held my interest in the Netherlands ducat is this - </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]456901[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]456902[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.coin-currency.com/media/Netherlands/GD15.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>What other coin can THAT be said about ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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