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1/2 Duit Negapatnam
| Issuer | Dutch East India Company (VOC) |
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| Year | 1695 |
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| Value | 1 Cache (1⁄160) |
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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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| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Negapatnam Mint |
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