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Issuing authority

British Java

Kind
colony
Region
Southeast Asia, Asia

Objects are filed under the historical authority that actually issued or made them. A recorded period comes from the issuer's own reference description and is left blank where no source states it.

Published entries

5

Individual types and documented families

With photographs

100%

5 with a credited real-object photo

Dated span

1811 – 1815

5 entries with their own date

Verified or well documented

0

Highest two confidence levels

Sorted by date, earliest first.

½ stuiver for the Dutch East Indies during British rule, 1811

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

½ stuiver for the Dutch East Indies during British rule, 1811

1811

Copper coin. Obverse: between value indication ½ St, monogram of the English East India Company. Above it, letter B [=British]. Reverse: one-line inscription, with date below. Mint mark above the inscription and mint master mark Z [=mint master Zwekkert] below the date. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object…

Documented

Partial type record

Duit for the Dutch East Indies during British rule, 1811

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Duit for the Dutch East Indies during British rule, 1811

1811

Copper coin. Obverse: monogram of the English East India Company. Above it, letter B [=British]. Reverse: one-line inscription, with date below. Mint mark above the inscription and mint master mark Z [=mint master Zwekkert] below the date. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-4808; its record gi…

Documented

Partial type record

Silver rupee for the Dutch East Indies during British rule, 1813

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Silver rupee for the Dutch East Indies during British rule, 1813

1813

Silver coin. Obverse: three-line inscription in Javanese with date indication on the bottom line. Above it, mint mark, and below it, mint master mark Z [=mint master Zwekkert]. Reverse: five-line inscription in Arabic, containing the date in the Islamic era. Cable edge. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object…

Documented

Partial type record

Dutch East Indies during British rule, stuiver Java, 1814

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Dutch East Indies during British rule, stuiver Java, 1814

1814

Copper coin. Obverse: between value indication I St, monogram of the English East India Company. Above it, letter B [=British]. Reverse: one-line inscription, with date below. Mint mark above the inscription and mint master mark Z [=mint master Zwekkert] below the date. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object…

Documented

Partial type record

Stuiver for the Dutch East Indies during British rule, 1815

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Stuiver for the Dutch East Indies during British rule, 1815

1815

Copper coin. Obverse: between value indication I St, monogram of the English East India Company. Above it, letter B [=British]. Reverse: one-line inscription, with date below. Mint mark above the inscription and mint master mark Z [=mint master Zwekkert] below the date. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object…

Documented

Partial type record

Materials recorded in the physical descriptions

  • Copper4
  • Silver1

An entry made of several materials is counted once under each. Materials are counted only where the description states them.

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