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1 Rupee Dutch East India Company
| Issuer | Dutch East India Company (VOC) |
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| Year | 1790-1799 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The VOC rupee occupies an awkward final chapter. By 1790 the Company was effectively insolvent, propped up by Dutch state loans while its corrupt administration in Batavia hemorrhaged money. These rupees were struck not from corporate wealth but from a dying institution's last attempts to maintain transactional credibility in its Asian territories. The VOC was formally dissolved in 1799 — the same year this type ceased production — with its debts and possessions absorbed by the Batavian Republic.
KM#175.2 distinguishes itself from the .1 variety by mint and die characteristics specific to the Bengal-adjacent trading posts rather than Batavia.