Dubbele Duit Utrecht

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.