4 Duiten 'Papegaaitje' Branch with 3 leaves

Suriname passed from English to Dutch control in 1667 under the Treaty of Breda — the same agreement by which England retained New York in exchange. The colony's earliest copper coinage followed years later as plantation commerce demanded small change that Dutch merchants were reluctant to ship across the Atlantic in quantity. These "Papegaaitje" pieces, named informally for their parrot imagery, were produced for local circulation and never intended for the metropolitan market.

The branch-with-three-leaves variety distinguishes this from closely related die types catalogued under Scholt II, a distinction that matters considerably to specialists given how few examples have survived without heavy verdigris damage from tropical burial conditions.