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1/2 Duit Utrecht
| Issuer | Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) |
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| Year | 1752-1790 |
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| Weight | 1.36 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | VOC 1755 (Translation: VOC (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) : United East India Company) |
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The VOC half duit was struck specifically for circulation in the Company's Asian territories, where small-denomination copper coinage was chronically undersupplied. Utrecht's provincial mint produced these under license from the States-General, and the city's issues are distinguishable from those of other Dutch provincial mints — Zeeland, Holland, and Gelderland among them — each of which struck VOC coinage with their own mint marks, creating a patchwork of small coppers that circulated interchangeably across Batavia and the surrounding settlements.
By the 1780s the VOC itself was in terminal financial collapse, nationalized by the Dutch state in 1799.