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1 Stuiver
| Uitgever | Dutch East India Company (VOC) / British Administration of Java |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1812-1815 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Schrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Opschrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | The word 'JAVA' appears in bold raised letters across the upper portion of the field, identifying the issuing territory, with the four-digit date centered below and the letter 'Z' positioned to the right of the date, likely denoting a die variety or mintmaster initial. Stars or ornamental stops flank the inscription, and the overall layout is plain and functional, consistent with British colonial emergency coinage struck during the occupation of Java. |
| Schrift keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Opschrift keerzijde | * JAVA 1814 Z |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
When Napoleonic France absorbed the Netherlands in 1810, Britain seized Dutch colonial possessions before French control could consolidate. Java fell to a British amphibious assault in August 1811, and Thomas Stamford Raffles was installed as Lieutenant-Governor. The VOC had been formally dissolved since 1799, but its copper coinage infrastructure remained, and the British administration continued striking stuivers using existing VOC dies and planchets rather than commission new colonial types — a purely pragmatic decision driven by the need to maintain a functioning trade currency in the archipelago.
The four-year production window ended with Java's return to Dutch authority under the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814, formalized in handover by 1816.