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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 8086085, member: 112&quot;]<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Did you guys hear what he said ? The guy&#039;s an animal !!! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Why he&#039;s got more of those things than I used to have !! </p><p><br /></p><p>As for the name, yeah, it can be said that Shakespeare got it wrong. But at the same time he also got it right, depending on one&#039;s perspective of course. I say that because of this.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;In 1140 AD, Roger II of Sicily, Duke of Apulia, struck a coin in silver known as a ducat. It bore the inscription Sit tibi, Christe, datus, quem tu regis, iste ducatus - Lord, thou rulest this duchy, to thee be it dedicated - thus the name. Little did he know what it was that he had started, for the ducat was to become possibly the single most important coin the world has ever known.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><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>That&#039;s the origin of the coin&#039;s name, and whether minted in gold or silver and regardless of the specific country&#039;s name for the coins, the coins were commonly called ducats. And pretty much every country in the known world minted ducats after that. But panzerman&#039;s right, in Italy it was technically a zecchino. But also with the common name of ducat.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I share something with panzerman, the source, the very beginning, of my interest in ducats, although I was a bit younger when it began. And mine wasn&#039;t Shakespeare, mine was the old movies he refers to, particularly the old pirate movies from the 30&#039;s and 40&#039;s. They were constantly referring to ducats in those movies. And I wanted to know what a ducat was ! </p><p><br /></p><p>We now return you to your scheduled programming of finding ooopses in movies and books <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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