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1 Duit Java
| Issuer | Netherlands East Indies (1601-1949) |
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| Year | 1806-1810 |
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| Thickness | 1.3 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | * VOC |
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The duit was the workhorse of small transactions across the archipelago, and the 1806–1810 dating places this issue squarely in one of the most turbulent administrative moments in Dutch colonial history. Napoleon's reorganization of Europe had dissolved the Batavian Republic and installed Louis Bonaparte on the Dutch throne in 1806, effectively making the Netherlands East Indies a French satellite possession. The VOC itself had already been liquidated in 1799, its catastrophic debts absorbed by the state.
Java fell to British forces under Stamford Raffles in 1811, ending this coinage type abruptly.