What was the Italian currency in Elizabethan Times?

Question: What was the Italian currency in Elizabethan Times!?
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The Italian currency in the Elizabethan era was not the lira!.

It was the ducket!. I doubt there were newspapers then, even though their were printing presses!. People bought books or pamphlets!.

Going back to the currency issue, I know it was duckets, because Michelangelo had a disagreement with the pope about not receiving some duckets for his work on one occassion at least!.

Correction:

Garibaldi united Italy in 1870!. Though each state still had ties with the other, to a greater or lesser extent!. And most of these individual states, used the ducket as currency!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

not sure if Italy existed as a country that far back!.Did`nt they get Tuscany, Lombardy etc!.all together as one country about 120 yrs ago!? Similarly , Belgium a `new` country !.Www@QuestionHome@Com

This site will give you information for 1600 - 1699Www@QuestionHome@Com

The Italian currency before the EU came along was the Lira!.!.!. FOR CENTURIES!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

mary hughs!.

before the most wonderful thing happened to her(marrying a king) and made her rich, she was a slave but then she ended up having slaves for herselfWww@QuestionHome@Com

I think Pelton is right, Garibaldi united Italy in the 1850sWww@QuestionHome@Com