This question is bugging me.
2007-01-21 07:41:58 · 4 answers · asked by lola 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
It was a ducat.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&lr=&defl=en&q=define:Ducat&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title
Edit:
Act V, Scene I
Romeo (to Apothecary): ...Hold, there is forty ducats; let me have
A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear
As will disperse itself through all the veins
That the life-weary taker may fall dead...
2007-01-21 09:26:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
A ducat. Forty of them, actually. Act 5 Scene 1 Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor: Hold, there is *forty ducats*: let me have A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear As will disperse itself through all the veins That the life-weary taker may fall dead
2016-05-24 07:16:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sybaris has it right. The ducat was a gold coin from Florence, the financial center of Europe during the Middle Ages. The shekel was a Jewish coin of silver.
2007-01-21 14:15:13 · answer #3 · answered by lyyman 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
sheckle
2007-01-21 08:18:37 · answer #4 · answered by Boston Bluefish 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋