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All are performed before tens of thousands of fans paying exorbitant prices for hard-to-come-by ducats.

The coins, called ducats, are “a symbol of good luck. … The details on the Ana coins are inspired by ducats.”

Caught in the middle is Pelosi, who appears to have moved firmly past a post-election struggle to regain the speaker’s gavel and recently finished handing out committee assignments and some other political ducats.

Michelangelo doesn’t want a fiefdom in the Balkans; he wants cold, hard ducats.

For much of European art history, religious authorities had the whip hand when it came to painting: They controlled the imagery, owned the prime real estate and could pay top ducat for the best work.