1/2 Stuiver - Willem I

Willem I authorized this fractional copper issue for the East Indies after the colony was restored to Dutch control in 1816 following the brief British interregnum under Raffles. The Batavian administration needed small-denomination coinage urgently — the British had made a mess of the local monetary supply, and Spanish and VOC-era pieces were still circulating freely alongside whatever came to hand.

The Scholt reference spanning entries 672–694 reflects the number of documented die varieties across the production run, an unusually wide spread for such a modest denomination.