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- noun Plural form of
ducatoon .
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Examples
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One of the soldiers cut off captain Jahier's head, and carrying it to Turin, presented it to the duke of Savoy, who rewarded him with six hundred ducatoons.
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He spoke to our skipper, who was not willing to release us without our paying him the whole passage money, namely two ducatoons apiece.
Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 Jasper Danckaerts 1898
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We paid our guide, giving him two ducatoons, [280] that is, thirty-two guilders in _zeewant_, because he had a little more trouble than either he or we had expected, and presented him with one hundred fish-hooks in addition.
Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 Jasper Danckaerts 1898
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We exchanged some of our money, and obtained six shillings and sixpence each for our ducatoons, and ten shillings each for the ducats.
Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 Jasper Danckaerts 1898
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You have his Lordship's license paid for in good round ducatoons - and that's the fee of a clear conscience.
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Pieces of eight of Mexico, Seville, and Pillar, ducatoons of Flanders, French ecus, or silver Louis, crusados of Portugal
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Besides dollars, the current coins were ducatoons, rupees, and doits, with some few gold rupees of Batavia; but the money accounts were usually kept in rix dollars, an imaginary coin of 4s.
A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Matthew Flinders 1794
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The money current here consists of ducats, worth a hundred and thirty-two stivers; ducatoons, eighty stivers; imperial rix-dollars, sixty; rupees of Batavia, thirty; schellings, six; double cheys, two stivers and a half; and doits, one fourth of a stiver.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 Robert Kerr 1784
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Pillar, ducatoons of Flanders, French ecus, or silver Louis, crusados of Porrtugal 3 3/4 d. the dwt. -- 4 d. the dwt.
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This morning Mr. Sheply disposed of the money that the Duke of York did give my Lord's servants, 22 ducatoons 3 came to my share, whereof he told me to give Jaspar something because my Lord left him out.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1660 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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