After being cared for by the people of Dubrovnik, the grateful king gifted the city 100,000 ducats to build a church, and the greatest cathedral in the Adriatic was born.
Heck, when Pope Clement VII died in 1534, the standing medical bill for all the precious stones that were administered to him on his sickbed was said to have been 40,000 ducats.
Item (that which her father valued most of all, the gold of these coins being twenty-three carats and a fraction), a hundred Dutch ducats, made in the year 1756, and worth thirteen francs apiece.