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1 Cash - Indo Dutch
| Issuer | Dutch East India Company (VOC) |
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| Year | 1662-1674 |
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| Value | 1 Cash |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears the name of the mint, Nagapatnam, inscribed in Tamil script arranged in horizontal lines across the central field. The legend is set within a plain border, with the Tamil characters filling the flan in a compact, rectilinear layout. The script is rendered in the regional Tamil style typical of South Indian coinage of the mid-seventeenth century. The flan is irregular and the strike is characteristic of hammered local production. |
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The VOC's cash coinage for its Coromandel Coast operations was produced specifically to compete with the indigenous copper small change circulating around Tuticorin and Nagapattinam — local merchants would not accept European specie, so the Company was forced to mint on local terms. These pieces were struck at Pulicat, the VOC's principal factory on the southeast Indian coast, which the Dutch had held since 1610 after driving out the Portuguese.
The twelve-year emission window reflects repeated authorization renewals from Batavia, each triggered by persistent shortages of petty coinage in the coastal bazaars.