2 Rijksdaalder

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.