Issuing authority

Dutch West Indies

Kind: colony
Region: Caribbean, South America

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

Individual types and documented families

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100%

4 with a credited real-object photo

Dated span

1794 – 1797

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Catalogue entries (4)

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Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Guilder of the West Indies, 1794

1794

Silver coin. Obverse: crowned Generality coat of arms between value indication 1 Gl. Below it, letter W [= West Indies]. At the end of the legend: TRAI. [= Utrecht]. Reverse: standing Dutch Maiden, holding in her right hand a lance surmounted by a cap of liberty, and her left arm resting on a Bible placed on a pedes…

Documented

Partial type record

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

West Indies, 1/4 guilder, 1794

1794

Silver coin. Obverse: crowned coat of arms of the Generality between value indication 1/4 Gl. Below it, the letter W [=West Indies]. At the end of the inscription: TRAI. [=Utrecht]. Reverse: standing Dutch Maiden, holding in her right hand a lance topped by the cap of liberty and resting her left arm on a Bible plac…

Documented

Partial type record

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

West Indies, 2 stuiver, 1794

1794

Silver coin. Obverse: crowned coat of arms of the Generality. Reverse: letter W [=West Indies]. Above it the coat of arms of the city of Utrecht and below it the date. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-5299; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworkin…

Documented

Partial type record

Stuiver with countermark applied on Sint Eustatius: Se on 2 sous from French Guiana (Cayenne) of King Louis XVI, [1797]

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Stuiver with countermark applied on Sint Eustatius: Se on 2 sous from French Guiana (Cayenne) of King Louis XVI, [1797]

1797

Copper coin. Obverse: three fleurs-de-lis surmounted by a crown. Reverse: value indication: 2 sous in two lines, below which is the date. Below that, the letter A [=Paris]. Smooth edge. With countermark: Se. Also called: sou marqué, black dog. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-5267B; its reco…

Documented

Partial type record

Materials recorded in the physical descriptions

Silver3
Copper1

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