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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2284276, member: 39&quot;]Still a long tradition. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Sure, nobody needs gold coins as means of payment, but I like the idea that the Dutch ducats are still issued. Whether the modern ones should be called &quot;coins&quot;, oh well ... they are not legal tender, but the specifications have not changed for a long time. Hope they will survive the current mint crisis.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the pronunciation, the Latin word <i>ducatus</i> (from the inscriptions on the first pieces of that kind) was AFAIK pronounced with a stressed middle syllable (<i>-kah-</i>). Hence dukaat in Dutch, or Dukaten (pl) in German, with the same emphasis ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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