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| Issuer | Dutch East India Company (VOC) |
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| Year | 1783 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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By 1783 the VOC was in terminal financial collapse, kept nominally operational only by Dutch state intervention that would end in the company's formal dissolution in 1799. These fractional copper issues from the final decades were struck for use in the company's Asian trading posts, where chronic shortages of small-denomination coinage made even the most debased company copper acceptable. The VOC's monetary infrastructure in the East had always run on improvisation.