He broke with tradition by scattering silver coins, rather than gold ducats, to the crowd during his coronation procession.

The implication is that Shylock is a heartless man who thinks of his daughter as just another possession-- like his horde of gold ducats.

It was full of gold ducats, which would buy anywhere.

An oval gold ducats exists, depicting Elisabeth exists, showing her efigy on the obverse and a crowned "E" on the reverse.

Father Peter's find consisted exclusively of gold ducats - mine also.

Also, as part of the divorce settlement Alexander the Good promised to pay her lifetime income worth 600 Hungarian gold ducats or florins payable in two installments.

The Hungarian and Dutch gold ducats, minted for centuries with a stable fineness, were esteemed trade coins.

Principles took second place to power; the family members moved this way or that to retain their leadership, their gold ducats, their palaces and estates.

But he could only be bribed with the gold ducats of Florence.

So the monster would have nothing to do with the gold ducats of Spain or Naples or Venice or Constantinople.