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| 正面描述 | Within a beaded inner border, the central field displays an upright sword flanked symmetrically by two laurel or olive branches tied at the base with a ribbon bow, the whole composition rendered in a bold, slightly crude hammered style characteristic of colonial emergency coinage. Decorative scrollwork and foliate ornaments appear in the space between the inner beaded border and the outer beaded rim, with additional pellet clusters punctuating the design at the cardinal points. The Latin legend BATAVIÆ ANNO 1645, separated by pellet stops, runs horizontally across the middle field to either side of the sword, identifying the place and year of issue. The overall design conveys the authority of the VOC colonial administration at Batavia, present-day Jakarta. |
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| 铸币厂 | Batavia |
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The 1645 Batavia emergency coinage was struck in response to a chronic shortage of acceptable silver currency circulating in VOC-controlled Java, where Spanish reales and locally-produced trade coins had become insufficient for the volume of commerce the Company was forcing through the port. The Batavian mint operated under conditions far removed from Amsterdam's oversight, and the .999 fineness reflects a deliberate policy decision — purity was used as a trust signal in Asian markets deeply skeptical of debased European coinage.
Emergency issues from Batavia are notably inconsistent in die alignment and edge treatment, a predictable consequence of improvised production under a trading post mint rather than a sovereign facility.