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1⁄16 Gulden
| Issuer | Batavian Republic |
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| Year | 1802 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central design depicts a three-masted VOC-style sailing vessel under full sail, rendered in detailed relief and set within a beaded inner circle. The ship is shown in profile sailing to the right, with pennants flying from each mast and wave elements visible beneath the hull. The surrounding Latin legend INDIÆ BATAVORUM arcs across the upper field, while the date 1802 appears in the exergue at the base of the inner circle. |
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The Batavian Republic — the French-client state imposed on the Dutch following the 1795 invasion — struck this fractional gulden during its increasingly troubled middle years, when the republic's nominal independence was being steadily eroded by Napoleon's demands for men, ships, and money. By 1806 the fiction was abandoned entirely and Louis Bonaparte was installed as king. Coins from 1802 sit in that window of managed autonomy, struck under Dutch administration but within monetary constraints set in Paris.