INDIA, Colonial. Dutch India. Vereenigde Oostindische

INDIA, Colonial. Dutch India. Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company). 1602-1800. AR "10 Stuivers" (19mm, 4.02 g). Jaffna in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) countermarked issue. Struck 1658 or shortly thereafter. Dutch East India Company monogram, I above (for Jaffna); all within round incuse struck on reverse of 16[43(?)] Goa mint Double Tanga (cf. Gomes 17.03 illustration). Scholten 1287 (date not listed). Host coin VF; countermark VF, toned, some scratches under tone. Extremely rare.


From the Joseph R Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Ex World-Wide Coins of California (James F. Elmen) XII (5 November 1987), lot 383.