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2 Rijksdaalder
| Issuer | Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) |
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| Year | 1802 |
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| Currency | Rijksdaalder (1606-1849) |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress-printed note within a ruled border, the upper portion bearing the heading "La: B. No: Goed voor Rds: 2" followed by a Dutch-language certificate text attesting the bearer's entitlement to two Rijksdaalders of 48 stuivers each in Indian money. A multi-line Malay-Arabic text block appears below the main body, with the place and date "Botavia in 't Kasteel den 17. Augustus 1802" and three manuscript signatures in ink. A circular VOC handstamp in blue ink is applied at lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is otherwise blank except for two circular VOC cipher stamps in red, applied at upper left and upper right, each enclosing the VOC monogram together with the numeral 2, serving as official authentication marks. |
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By 1802, the VOC had been legally dissolved for two years — the Batavian Republic nationalized it on 1 March 1800 after decades of catastrophic debt. Notes issued under the VOC name after that point were effectively legacy instruments, circulated on institutional inertia rather than any live corporate authority. The Batavia printshop continued producing paper bearing the old company designation while the political transition worked its way through the colonial administration.
The handstamp security feature was a rudimentary local measure; counterfeiting of VOC paper currency in the Indies was a persistent problem throughout the eighteenth century, and the colony never developed a sophisticated anti-forgery infrastructure.