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2 Stuiver
| Issuer | Dutch East India Company (VOC) |
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| Year | 1783-1792 |
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| Value | 2 Stuiver |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 1792 ලව (Translation: Half Fanam) |
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The VOC issued copper coinage for its colonial territories not as a public service but as a revenue mechanism — the company held minting rights that allowed it to profit directly from seigniorage. By the 1780s, when this piece was struck, the VOC was in terminal financial collapse, drowning in debt and corruption, and would be formally dissolved in 1799. These late copper issues circulated across VOC trading posts from Batavia to Ceylon, in some cases continuing in use well after the company itself ceased to exist.
KM#30 was struck across multiple VOC mints in the Netherlands, and attributing individual pieces to a specific facility requires close examination of mintmaster marks.