Brewer's: Ducat

A piece of money; so called from the legend on the early Sicilian pieces: Sit tibi, Christe, datus, quem tu regis, istë ducatus (May this duchy [ducat-us] which you rule be devoted to you, O Christ).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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