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20 Rijksdaalder
| Issuer | Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) |
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| Year | 1809 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse lettering | VOC 20 |
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| Protection type | Handstamp, Manuscript signatures |
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The VOC had been officially dissolved by the Batavian Republic on 31 December 1799, which makes any note bearing its name after that date an administrative curiosity. By 1809 the former Company's territorial possessions were being managed under Napoleonic French authority — the Kingdom of Holland under Louis Bonaparte had taken nominal control, though local administrators in the outer islands often continued using existing VOC institutional infrastructure, letterheads, and paper stock simply because nothing had replaced them yet.
Amboina, deep in the Maluku Islands, was isolated enough that such anachronisms persisted. The manuscript signatures and handstamp authentication reflect an almost entirely local production — no metropolitan printer, no engraved plate.