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1/2 Stuiver
| Issuer | Dutch East India Company (VOC) |
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| Year | 1660 |
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| Value | 1/2 Stuiver |
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| Obverse description | Denomination expressed as '1/2 S T' (half Stuiver) rendered in stylized script characters within a plain field. The lettering is boldly executed in a cursive or pseudo-Arabic style typical of VOC coinage produced at the Jaffna Mint for Ceylon, occupying the majority of the coin's surface. The flan is irregular and slightly squared at the edges, consistent with hammered copper coinage of the period. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The VOC operated its own mint authority under charter from the States-General, issuing copper fractional coinage specifically for trade settlements across its Asian factory network — Batavia chief among them. These small coppers circulated in contexts where silver was hoarded and Dutch Republic coinage rarely reached.
KM#18 is known with considerable die variation across its production run, a consequence of decentralized minting oversight rather than any single controlled operation.