1915 Gold Ducat, Austria, Franz Joseph I
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Condition:
Brilliant Uncirculated
Weight:
3.49 gr. (0.1107 oz., 0.986)
Obverse:
Franz Joseph I, Restrike
The ducat was a gold or silver coin used as a trade coin in Europe from the later Middle Ages until as late as the 20th century. Many types of ducats had various metallic content and purchasing power throughout the period. The gold ducat of Venice gained wide international acceptance, like the medieval Byzantine hyperpyron and the Florentine florin, or the modern British pound sterling and the United States dollar. In more recent usage, the ducat has been reinvented as slang terminology for a poker chip (pronounced Duckett).
Franz Joseph I Karl (-German, in English Francis Joseph I Charles, see the name in other languages) (18 August, 1830 – 21 November, 1916) of the Habsburg Dynasty was Emperor of Austria, Apostolic King of Hungary-Croatia and King of Bohemia from 1848 until 1916.
