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1 Cent/Duit - Willem I
| Issuer | Netherlands East Indies (1601-1949) |
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| Year | 1833-1840 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays the crowned Netherlands States General lion shield, depicting a rampant lion within a rectangular escutcheon surmounted by a royal crown. The denomination numeral '1' appears to the left of the shield and the abbreviation 'C.T' (Cent) to the right, both rendered in raised relief against the plain field. The design is presented without a surrounding legend, with the crown serving as the principal decorative element above the arms. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The duit had circulated in the East Indies for nearly two centuries before Willem I's administration finally standardized the coinage under a coherent decimal framework in the early 1830s. The Dutch East India Company had issued duits in enormous, poorly controlled quantities — different weights, different alloys — leaving the colonial monetary system in a state of chronic confusion that persisted well past the VOC's dissolution in 1799.
KM#290 was struck at Utrecht. The 1838 and 1839 dates are considerably harder to locate than the earlier issues in the run.