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3 Gulden
| Issuer | Dutch East India Company (VOC) |
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| Year | 1789 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Standing allegorical figure of Liberty in classical draped robes, facing slightly right, holding a liberty pole surmounted by a hat in her raised right hand and resting her left arm upon a decorative altar or pedestal. The date '1789' appears in the exergue below the figure. A circular Latin legend runs along the rim reading 'HANC TVEMUR HAC NITIMUR', a motto referencing the protection and strength of freedom. |
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| Reverse lettering | HANC TVEMUR HAC NITIMUR 1789 |
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By 1789, the VOC was in terminal financial collapse — the company would surrender its charter to the Dutch state just four years later, in 1799. This 3 Gulden was struck at a moment when the organization was functionally insolvent, kept alive by successive government bailouts while its trade monopoly had long since eroded under British and local competition. Coins issued in these final years circulated across the company's remaining Indonesian territories as the administrative apparatus around them quietly disintegrated.