What is ducats?

[Neta9119]

Is ducats your treasury or what?

[RalphRoberts]

it's money...

[Gutbomber]

Yes, it's your treasury. Make sure to save it up, and not go into debt! You use it to make buildings in your country.

[Blue Knight™]

these forums posts get dumber and dumber each months

[tonypa]

Ducats is the name of currency used in EU4. I usually call it "gold", but it could be more confusing as there are also actual gold mines in the game.

[kaiyl_kariashi]

Ducats are a trade currency used during this period and the late medeival ages. There were a few different varieties but it was reasonably standardized, at least around Europe, with the Florentinian model being the standard for a lot of it.

Ducats in game just refers to money. (similarly to British Pounds being used Victoria for their generic currency)

[Fantastic Fwoosh]

you could say for every 1 ducat you own, its actually a hundred RL ducats, so its a more centralised model since provinces can contribute less than one ducat in tax, production etc. Least thats how i always figured money was in this game.