1 Cash Negapatnam mint

The VOC established Negapatnam (on the Coromandel Coast) as a key trading base after taking it from the Portuguese in 1658, and these small copper cash pieces were struck specifically for local commerce in a region where indigenous monetary conventions demanded low-denomination coinage compatible with existing South Indian currency systems. The Dutch lost Negapatnam permanently to the British in 1781 during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War — a conflict fought largely over colonial possessions rather than European territory.