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1/2 Stuiver hammered coinage
| Issuer | Netherlands East Indies (1601-1949) |
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| Year | 1804-1805 |
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| Value | 1/2 Stuiver (1⁄60) |
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| Reverse description | The mint year inscribed in Latin numerals within a raised pearled rectangular border, the date centered in the field. The numerals are boldly struck but show the irregularity typical of hammered coinage, with the surrounding dot border forming a simple decorative frame. The reverse design mirrors the austere utilitarian style of the obverse, reflecting the emergency or locally produced nature of this Java copper coinage. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1804 |
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The VOC had collapsed by the time this coin was struck. The Dutch East India Company's charter expired in 1799, and the Batavian Republic — the French-backed successor state in the Netherlands — inherited both the colonial territories and the obligation to keep small change circulating in them. This piece was issued under that transitional authority, in the awkward years before Napoleon simply absorbed the Netherlands outright in 1810.
Hammered production for fractional copper at this late date is unusual — the technology was largely obsolete in European minting by 1800. Its persistence in the colonial Indies issues reflects the practical reality of supplying a distant archipelago with whatever equipment was already on the ground.