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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;talerman, post: 3108638, member: 89314&quot;]Good point. According to Huszár (Münzkatalog Ungarn), the gold coins before 1659 were all forints (in German&nbsp; gold gulden), not ducats.&nbsp; The difference between the two seems quite small. I found the following on the website</p><p><a href="https://goldducats.com/about-ducats/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://goldducats.com/about-ducats/" rel="nofollow">https://goldducats.com/about-ducats/</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Shortly before the first gold ducats were minted, in 1252 the Florence and Genoa mints started minting florins. Subsequently, gold florins were also minted in 1256 by Lucca and Perrugia in 1259. However, in 1284 the first gold ducats, Venetian ducats (aka zecchinos), were approved to be minted. They were supposed to be heavier than florins (3.545 gm instead of 3.53 gm), but were also struck in pure gold. Minting of gold Venetian ducats started in March 1285. Due to wide acceptance of gold ducats in international trade, other countries also minted these coins. The most recognizable were Hungarian, Spanish and finally Dutch type ducats.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Panzerman - what is the weight of your coin ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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