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10 Sen Netherlands East Indies
| Issuer | Japan |
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| Year | 1943-1944 |
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| Reference(s) | Y#66 |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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| Mintage | 2603 (1943) - - 69,490,000 2604 (1944) - - 110,510,000 |
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Japan began issuing coinage for the occupied Netherlands East Indies in 1942 following the rapid collapse of Dutch colonial defenses, replacing the existing Dutch colonial currency as part of a broader effort to reorient the archipelago's economy toward Japanese war aims. Tin-zinc was chosen out of necessity — by 1943, copper, nickel, and aluminum were all being consumed by the Japanese military machine at a rate that made them unavailable for subsidiary coinage.
The tin-zinc alloy proved notoriously unstable, and surviving examples that have not corroded, cracked, or suffered surface breakdown are genuinely scarce.