A smaller silver coin, the grosso features images similar to the ducat, and from the 14th century, was used as a trade coinage in the eastern Mediterranean. The Mamluk coins are mostly decorated ...

Related: 32 stunning centuries-old hoards unearthed by metal detectorists The stash includes a gold coin known as a "golden angel"; gold ducats and double ducats; silver coins known as thalers ...

Gold coins, ducats, silver coins and hundreds of pennies had been stowed in a cavity inside the leg of the statue, according to the history publication All That's Interesting. Ulf Dräger ...

"By the end of the fourteenth century [Venetian] ducats were the only European gold ... other locations in Southern Europe, such as a silver coin minted during the reign of James I, who was ...