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1 Duit West Friesland
| Issuer | VOC (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) |
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| Year | 1729-1794 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The VOC duit was the workhorse of the Company's Asian trade network, struck in enormous quantities at the Hoorn and Enkhuizen mints under West Friesland's provincial authority. These coins circulated throughout the Dutch East Indies, particularly Java, where they became so embedded in local commerce that the Javanese word for money — duit — derives directly from the coin itself. By the mid-eighteenth century the Company was shipping them east by the barrel, often mixed with duits from other VOC chambers, which makes chamber-specific attribution a matter of die study rather than casual inspection.
West Friesland issues are distinguished from Amsterdam, Zeeland, and Gelderland chamber strikes by subtle heraldic variations that Scholt's reference catalogues exhaustively across the cited range.