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1 Duit Holland
| Issuer | Dutch East India Company (VOC) |
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| Year | 1735-1763 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Reverse description | Central field features the interlaced VOC monogram of the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (United East India Company) in bold raised letters. A rosette mintmark appears at the top of the design between two dots, identifying the Dordrecht mint. The date is inscribed below the monogram. The reverse is framed by a plain or reeded rim depending on the year of issue. |
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| Edge | Plain (1735-1747); Reeded (1748-1753) |
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The duit was the workhorse of VOC trade coinage in the Indonesian archipelago, where small-denomination copper issues dominated everyday transactions. A silver duit, however, is a different animal entirely — KM#70a represents an anomalous and short-lived experiment in silver composition for a denomination almost universally struck in copper throughout the VOC period. The Holland provincial issues were among the most heavily counterfeited in circulation, partly driving quality-control variants.
The VOC's Batavia administration frequently complained to the Heeren XVII about substandard planchets arriving from Dutch mints.