From ruwaerd@hetnet.nl Sun Feb 11 08:18:09 2001
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Dear Mr. Ratnatunga
This is a translation of the text on the Dutch Nedish Ducat you show
on your website
MOneta ORDinum PROVINciarum FOEDERatum BELGium CE LEGem IMPerii
(Coin of the provincial government (Holland). Of the united provinces
(federation) of the Netherlands.
In accordance with the law of the (German) empire).
Belgium, Belgica or Belgii ; the Netherlands in Latin, and in English,
Belgium is a separate country (also called: southern Netherlands).
Dutch is one of the four languages spoken in the kingdom of the Netherlands
It is also the majority language in Belgium and in Suriname
www.suriname.org
Frisian is the language I daily use, and I use Dutch as a third
language.
There is not a single word in Dutch on this coin, why do you call it a
Dutch Ducat?
There isn't a country called: Dutchmania or something like that on
this planet .
It makes it all very confusing.
Finally, I have never heard of the word Zeilan, where did you get it from?
I have looked in old maps and correspondence I could only find the
word Ceilon or Ceylon in Dutch.
Greetings from a Netherlander,
Jan Ruwaert