Catalog
1/2 Rasi Cochin
| Issuer | Dutch East India Company (VOC) |
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| Year | 1663-1724 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1663-1724) |
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The VOC never governed Cochin outright — they held it under a treaty arrangement with the Raja of Cochin following their expulsion of the Portuguese in 1663. These small copper pieces were struck to facilitate local trade within that client-state relationship, denominated in the indigenous rasi system rather than any Dutch monetary unit, a deliberate concession to local commercial practice that the Company made wherever indigenous currency habits were too entrenched to displace.