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1 Duit West Friesland
| Issuer | Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) |
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| Year | 1756 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1726-1854) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The VOC's decision to strike duits in silver — rather than the copper standard for this denomination — remains one of the more puzzling monetary choices in the Company's Asian operations, almost certainly driven by local trade demand in specific ports where copper coinage was distrusted or simply unavailable in sufficient quantity. West Friesland's chamber of the VOC maintained its own distinct coinage identity well into the eighteenth century, a jurisdictional holdover from the original 1602 charter that divided minting rights among the six participating chambers.
The Scholt II#262a attribution places this among the rarer metal variants catalogued for the type.