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2 Stuiver 'Double Stuiver'
| Issuer | Netherlands West Indies |
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| Year | 1794 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | The Generaliteitswapen, the crowned coat of arms of the Dutch Republic, occupying the central field. The shield displays the rampant lion of the Netherlands holding a bundle of arrows and a sword, emblematic of the seven united provinces. The composition is surmounted by a princely crown and framed without additional legend, consistent with the austere heraldic style employed on West Indies colonial issues of the late eighteenth century. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Netherlands West Indies coinage of the 1790s was struck under the Geoctroyeerde Westindische Compagnie — the Dutch West India Company — whose authority was already collapsing by the time this piece entered circulation. The Company was formally dissolved in 1792, and coins issued under its auspices in the years immediately following exist in a bureaucratic grey zone, produced on residual authority as the colonial administration scrambled to maintain a functioning currency in the Caribbean territories.
Low silver fineness at .575 reflects chronic metal shortages and the economic strain of maintaining far-flung colonial mints during the Anglo-Dutch conflicts of the period. The Batavian Republic would formally reorganize colonial governance within a year of this issue.