Genoa Ducat coin stamp - Italian / 14th century - ON ORDER

Stamp from Genoa, Italy, medieval ducat, 14th century. 22 mm diameter. Hardened steel.

Initially, ducat was an imitation of the Florentine florin. Unlike its prototype, the ducat escaped spoilage and for many centuries contained as much gold as the first Venetian gold coins of 1284. Soon imitations appeared in other Italian states. At the same time, the assignment of these coins to florins, ducats or cechens is controversial. So, in the world famous catalog of coins Krause, 1655 gold coi ns weighing 3.5 g 986 samples of Castiglione delle Stiviere are called florins, while coins of the city of Modena with similar weight characteristics are called ducats. Coins of Milan during the reign of the Habsburgs, according to the catalogs, are called workshop halls. It should be noted that among numerous issues there were cases of weight reduction and gold content in coins.