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1 Duit 1796
| Issuer | Dutch East India Company (VOC) |
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| Year | 1796-1797 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Central field dominated by the intertwined VOC monogram — the celebrated cipher of the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie — rendered in bold, interlaced letters with the V at centre flanked by O and C. Above the monogram, the mintmark letter N (for Harderwijk) is prominently displayed. The entire design is set within a plain field bordered by a toothed or rope-like rim, characteristic of late VOC tin coinage. The overall style is typographic rather than figural, reflecting the commercial rather than sovereign nature of the issuing company. |
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| Mintage | 1796 - - 1797 - - |
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By 1796, the VOC was effectively bankrupt and operating on borrowed time — the Dutch government nationalized its remaining assets on January 1, 1800, after over 150 years of chartered operations. These late tin duits were struck for circulation in the company's Asian territories at a moment when the organization issuing them had already lost control of many of those same territories to British forces during the French Revolutionary Wars. The tin composition was a cost-cutting measure long established in VOC coinage for the Eastern trade, where copper and silver were more tightly managed.