On the Right Coast of Ukraine, in the Eastern Carpathians - in the Hutsul and Pokuttya regions (Ivano-Frankivsk oblast), and in Western Podillia (Ternopil oblast), people created necklaces (including coral necklaces) from a number of coins without any decoration. In Galicia, such necklaces were called ducats, probably in reference to the ducato, a gold coin minted in Venice since 1284. 

In Poland and Ukraine until the 17th century, all gold coins were called ducats, and from the beginning of the 18th century the name ducats was preserved for medal pendants and coin jewelry in the form of necklaces with whole or twisted coins strung together. However, among 19th-century ethnographers, there was serious confusion between the two concepts of ducats and dukachs; this led to the fact that since then all coins that were part of a necklace were often called dukachs.

A necklace made of coins of different sizes, from smaller ones at the edges of the necklace to larger ones in the middle part and the largest in diameter in the center of the row, was particularly ceremonial. Coins were suspended from a chain, thread, braid, ribbon, strung on a thread between beads of Venetian glass, coral, smalt, or garnet (in Poltava, Kharkiv, and Hutsul regions), connected with metal tubes or springs, like zgardas (in Hutsul region), and sewn onto beaded gerdans (in Pokuttia, Bukovyna, Hutsul region, and Western Podillia).

Project "Decorative metal: metal elements of traditional Ukrainian neck jewelry" is supported by the European Union under the House of Europe programme.