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2 Keping Pattern
| Issuer | Dutch East India Company (VOC) |
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| Year | 1786 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1783-1824) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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The VOC's experimental keping coinage of the 1780s was produced for circulation in the company's Sumatran territories, where existing trade coinages — including locally cast tin pieces — were proving inadequate for small transactions. The 1786 pattern issues were never approved for general release, leaving surviving examples almost entirely in institutional or specialist collections.
Scholt II#959.c distinguishes this from the other keping pattern varieties by die characteristics documented in the Dutch colonial numismatic literature. The VOC itself was less than a decade from insolvency by this date.