2 Stuivers Hammered coinage

Java was under British administration from 1811 to 1816 following Stamford Raffles' seizure of the island from the Dutch-backed Batavian Republic, but the Dutch reassumed control under the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814. These copper pieces were struck in the immediate aftermath of that transfer, as the restored Dutch colonial administration scrambled to establish a functioning monetary supply on an island whose existing coinage had been badly disrupted by a decade of war and changing hands.

The hammered production method was already archaic by 1818 — a deliberate concession to available equipment in Batavia rather than metropolitan mint capability.