fwo_989445 - NETHERLANDS INDIES 5 1/32 Gulden (1/2 Duit) écu couronné des Pays-Bas 1808 Enkhuizen
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Type : 5 1/32 Gulden (1/2 Duit) écu couronné des Pays-Bas
Date: 1808
Mint name / Town : Enkhuizen
Quantity minted : -
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18,55 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,40 g.
Edge : lisse
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Collection d’un descendant du Comte Jacques Defermon (1752-1831) ministre d'État et directeur des finances de 1808 à 1815
Obverse
Obverse legend : 5 - 1/32 / G..
Obverse description : écu au lion couronné.
Reverse
Reverse legend : INDIÆ / BATAV / 1809.
Reverse description : dans le champ.
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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