ducatoon

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a large silver coin formerly used in the Low Countries and parts of Italy, especially in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

   The Amsterdam bank valued each ducatoon at three guilders.

Borrowed from French ducaton, a diminutive of ducat. Ducatoon is an English variant of ducaton; the name was applied to large silver trade coins of the Low Countries and to similar Italian coins.

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