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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 7798525, member: 112"]Yes, the florin was another not only popular but common coin of the time. And both coins, the florin and the ducat, circulated widely throughout Italy, not just their respective city states. The thing is though, the Venetian ducat was the US dollar of it's time, and that time covered centuries. It was accepted worldwide, and more readily accepted than any other coin of the time. And it was that coin that made Venice the trade capital of the world for that time frame.</p><p><br /></p><p>And Venice stayed the trade capital of the world until the Netherlands came along and replaced them. And again, the thing that allowed the Netherlands to replace them, was their coin, the Netherlands gold ducat - which became the new US dollar, and stayed that way for centuries. </p><p><br /></p><p>Those two countries were the trade capital of the the world for almost a thousand years, and the Netherlands still is. And it was all because of their gold ducats, and the trust and acceptability the entire world placed in those coins. No other coins can make that claim - only those two. The Netherlands gold ducat was so widely accepted that the Russian government counterfeited them for 150 years, and used them in their own country ! They even paid their soldiers with them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 7798525, member: 112"]Yes, the florin was another not only popular but common coin of the time. And both coins, the florin and the ducat, circulated widely throughout Italy, not just their respective city states. The thing is though, the Venetian ducat was the US dollar of it's time, and that time covered centuries. It was accepted worldwide, and more readily accepted than any other coin of the time. And it was that coin that made Venice the trade capital of the world for that time frame. And Venice stayed the trade capital of the world until the Netherlands came along and replaced them. And again, the thing that allowed the Netherlands to replace them, was their coin, the Netherlands gold ducat - which became the new US dollar, and stayed that way for centuries. Those two countries were the trade capital of the the world for almost a thousand years, and the Netherlands still is. And it was all because of their gold ducats, and the trust and acceptability the entire world placed in those coins. No other coins can make that claim - only those two. The Netherlands gold ducat was so widely accepted that the Russian government counterfeited them for 150 years, and used them in their own country ! They even paid their soldiers with them.[/QUOTE]
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