After a tour of America organized by the Croatian Fraternal Union, the band started to compose more music about Croatia.
Zlatni Dukati's first album was titled Ni sokaci nisu što su nekad bili.
The band members for the tour were: In 1988, Zlatni Dukati started working with composer Josip Ivanković and released the album Nek zvone tambure.
During their tour of the United States, Zlatni Dukati decided to record an album of Croatian patriotic songs.
That album was U meni Hrvatsk which reportedly boosted the morale of Croatian soldiers on the front lines.
The band released the following albums under its new name: Vranac, Nek me pamte gradovi, Hrvatske pjesme iz Bosne i Hercegovine, Sedam dana, Divne godine, Tamburica od javora suva, Sretan Bozic, Nostalgija and Slavonijo, biseru Hrvatske.