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1/2 Duit Negapatnam
| Issuer | Dutch East India Company (VOC) |
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| Year | 1695 |
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| Technique | Cast |
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| Obverse description | Stylized frontal effigy of the deity Kali rendered in a schematic, archaic manner typical of South Indian coinage of the period. The figure is depicted with outstretched arms terminating in claw-like projections, a broad face with prominent features, and a row of pellets across the torso suggesting a necklace or ritual ornament. The design occupies the full field of the flan in a bold, primitive artistic style characteristic of Dutch India cast coinage from Negapatnam. |
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| Reverse description | Tamil inscription occupying the central field, reading 'Nakapattanam' (the Tamil name for Negapatnam), rendered in archaic Tamil script characters. The legend is arranged in two lines across the flan, with additional ornamental pellets or decorative elements flanking the inscription. The script is characteristic of late 17th-century South Indian epigraphy as employed on VOC subsidiary coinage struck for local circulation in the Coromandel Coast region. |
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| Mintage | 1695: ND (1695) |
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