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1 Duit
| Issuer | Dutch East India Company (VOC) |
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| Year | 1782-1786 |
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| Currency | Stuiver (1660-1796) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field depicting a stylized bunch of grapes or floral ornament in low relief, typical of VOC Ceylon coinage. Below the central device, the denomination is inscribed in two lines within the lower field, framed by a plain border. The overall design is simple and utilitarian, consistent with cast tin colonial issues. |
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The VOC duit served as the workhorse of small transactions across the Dutch East Indies, but tin issues from Batavia in the 1780s arrived during the Company's terminal financial collapse — the VOC was effectively bankrupt by 1781, its debts exceeding 100 million guilders. The Dutch state would nationalize the entire enterprise in 1799.
Tin was sourced largely from the Bangka and Belitung islands, whose deposits the Company had fought to control throughout the eighteenth century. These late issues are among the last coin types the VOC would authorize before dissolution.