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Succeeding doges of Venice continued striking ducats, changing only their name on the obverse. The ducat had a variable price versus the silver Venetian lira, reaching 6.2 lire or 124 soldi (shillings) by 1470. At that point a ducat worth 124 soldi emerged as a new silver-based unit of account for quoting salaries and costs.
By 1472 the lira di grossi gave way to the ducat accounting unit, equal to 1 ⁄ 10 the lira di grossi or 24 grossi, and fixed at 6.2 lire or 124 soldi piccoli. Confusion then set in the 16th century when the accounting ducat became worth less than the gold ducat, leading to the gold coin being called the zecchino (English: sequin ) and ...
The ducat was the main currency of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies between 1816 and 1860. When the Congress of Vienna created the kingdom merging the Kingdom of Naples and the Kingdom of Sicily, the ducat became at par a continuation of the Neapolitan ducat and the Sicilian piastra issued prior to 1816, although the Sicilian piastra had been subdivided into 240 grana.
On the basis of the conversion from Two Sicilies ducats into Italian lira of 1862 (1 duchy = 4.25 lire) it is obtained that the "pay" of Bourbon soldiers was in line with that of the Sardinian soldiers, but already the non-commissioned officers of the Royal Army received a much better pay than Sardinian non-commissioned officers (about 20%. It ...
17th century rijksdaalder was set to be equal to from 48 to 50 stuivers (the Dutch equivalent of shillings) and circulated along with silver florins (28 stuivers), daalders (30 stuivers), leeuwendaalders (36 to 42 stuivers; 27.68 g, 0.743 fine), silver ducats (48 stuivers; 28.06 g, 0.868 fine), and ducatons (60 stuivers; 32.46 g, 0.938 fine) [1 ...
The right to ship 1,000 ducats worth of goods from the Moluccas to Spain annually exempt from most taxes. [17] ... [123] [124] Elcano, however, ...
The last red złoty, the "insurgent ducat" of 1831. The red złoty was minted at 3.5 grams of gold. [4] There was also a silver złoty, worth 23.1 grams of silver. [4] In 1526 a monetary scale was introduced in which 1 złoty = 5 szóstaków (sixpences) = 10 trojaków (threepences) = 30 groszy = 90 szelągów (shillings) = 180 ternarów/trzeciaków = 540 denarów ().
Local names were used - lobanchik, arapchik, and puchkovyi (from the depiction of the soldier on the coin clutching arrows). These ducats were taken out of circulation in Holland in 1849 (this is the last date on the Russian copies), and in Russia they ceased to be minted in 1868 after the protest of the Dutch government. [11]