2 Stuiver / 1/2 Fanam

The VOC never bothered establishing a formal mint on Ceylon — these tiny silver pieces were struck at Colombo under Company authority, part of a broader effort to displace the bewildering variety of local fanams and pagodas that complicated trade accounting across the island. At 0.29 grams, production was inherently imprecise, and weight variation across the 138-year issue span is substantial enough that contemporaries almost certainly accepted them by tale rather than by scale.