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Dubbele Duit Utrecht
| Issuer | Dutch East India Company (VOC) |
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| Year | 1790 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1726-1854) |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays the crowned arms of Utrecht: a shield bearing a diagonal band of oblique lines (representing the Utrecht bend), supported on either side by rampant lions serving as heraldic supporters. The crown above the shield is an elaborate municipal crown with floral finials. The entire composition rests upon a decorative foliate base, with no peripheral legend. The design is rendered in bold relief characteristic of late VOC copper coinage. |
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| Mint | Utrecht Mint |
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By 1790, the VOC was in terminal financial collapse — the company would be dissolved just nine years later, its debts assumed by the Batavian Republic. These Utrecht-issue copper duits were struck for circulation in the Indonesian archipelago, where chronic small-change shortages had long plagued colonial trade. The Utrecht mintmark distinguishes this issue from parallel strikes at other provincial mints, and Scholten records meaningful die variation across the provincial outputs of this period.