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48 Stivers
| Issuer | Ceylon Government |
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| Year | 1803 |
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| Currency | Rixdollar (1796-1828) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 1803 |
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Ceylon came under British control in 1796 when the Dutch surrendered the island to avoid its ports falling to France — an arrangement formalized by the Treaty of Amiens in 1802. The 48 Stivers denomination is a direct inheritance from Dutch colonial monetary practice, retained by the new British administration purely for continuity of local commerce. The British had no particular attachment to the stuiver system and phased it out within a decade.
KM#78 is among the last gasp of Dutch-derived coinage on the island before sterling-based currency took hold.