ducatoon

[ duhk-uh-toon, duhk-uh-toon ]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of ducatoon¹

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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The character given of the fellows to whom the captain was obliged to have recourse, by the person who recommended their being applied to, was, that for a ducatoon they would cut their master's throat, burn the house over his head, and bury him and the whole family in the ashes.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

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