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1/2 Duit Holland
| Issuer | Dutch East India Company (VOC) |
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| Year | 1749-1770 |
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| Weight | 1.5 g |
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| Reverse description | A bold VOC cypher monogram occupies the central field, formed by the interlaced letters V, O, and C representing the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (United East India Company). A rosette mintmark appears at the top between two dots, identifying the Holland chamber of the VOC. The date of issue is inscribed below the monogram in Roman numerals or Arabic numerals depending on the year, with the overall design enclosed within a plain circular border. |
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| Mintage | 1749 - - 1750 - - 1751 - - 1752 - - 1753 - - 1754 - - 1769 - - 1770 - - |
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The VOC half duit was produced specifically for circulation in the Company's Asian territories, not the Dutch Republic itself — the Netherlands maintained entirely separate coinage for domestic use. By the mid-eighteenth century, the VOC was minting enormous quantities of small copper through the Holland provincial mint to pay laborers, soldiers, and local traders across Batavia and the surrounding settlements, where Spanish silver was hoarded and small change was perpetually scarce.
The Holland chamber authorized this denomination independently of the other five VOC chambers, each of which could strike coin under its own provincial authority — a decentralization that produced significant variation in quality across issues of nominally identical pieces.