fwo_986263 - NETHERLANDS INDIES 2 Duit armes d’Utrecht 1790
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Type : 2 Duit armes d’Utrecht
Date: 1790
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,93 g.
Edge : lisse
Coments on the condition:
Patine tachée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : écu couronné d’Utrecht encadré par deux lions.
Reverse
Reverse legend : 1790.
Reverse description : monogramme de la Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC).
Commentary
Au revers, figure les initiales de la Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) qui est la Compagnie unie des Indes Orientales, puissante compagnie de commerce néerlandaise fondée en 1602 et dissoute en 1798. Cette compagnie frappait alors ses propres monnaies.
Historical background
NETHERLANDS INDIES
In 1602, the Vereenigde Ooste Indishe Compagnie (United East India Company) abbreviated as VOC was founded, which obtained the monopoly of trade in the Indian Ocean. It establishes counters, raises troops and maintains a fleet. Badly managed, the VOC is also worn down by competition and wars with the British. It loses Ceylon and is reinforced in the area of present-day Indonesia. The VOC went bankrupt in 1798 and its assets were taken over by the Batavian Republic and then by the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Occupied between 1943 and 1945 by Japanese troops, the Dutch failed to restore their sovereignty over the archipelago and had to concede independence in 1949.
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