The gold coins which are worth referring to are the ducat, the sequin, the fiorino doro, and the scudo doro. |
So they gave the old woman a dish full of gold, but she took only one ducat. |
The calculations were done with the help of soldiers who were given a gold ducat for every mistake they found. |
This did not inspire me with confidence, so I only punted a ducat at a time. |
A ducat weighs about 3.5 grams so this coin would be more than a 17-ducat coin. |
It was to no purpose that Sambuc appealed to ducat and Cabasse to confirm his statement. |