ducatoon

American  

[duhk-uh-toon, duhk-uh-toon] / ˈdʌk əˌtun, ˌdʌk əˈtun /

Also ducaton

noun

1. a former silver coin of the Netherlands, used through the 17th and 18th centuries: equal to three gulden.

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Etymology

Origin of ducatoon

1605–15; < French ducaton, diminutive of ducat ducat

Example Sentences

Ducatoon′, an old silver coin in Venice and elsewhere, worth 5 to 6 shillings.

From Project Gutenberg

Ducatoon�, formerly a Dutch silver coin worth 3 gulden 3 stivers, or 5s. 3d. sterling.

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At this time paper was at 28 per cent discount: there is likewise a difference in the value of the ducatoon which at Batavia is 80 stivers and in Holland only 63 stivers: this occasions a loss of 21 1/4 per cent on remittance of money.

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A common punishment costs the master a rix-dollar, and a severe one a ducatoon, about six shillings and eight-pence.

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A milled ducatoon is worth eighty stivers; but an unmilled ducatoon is worth no more than seventy-two.

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