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1 Keping Error value
| Issuer | Dutch East India Company (VOC) |
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| Year | 1798 |
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| Reference(s) | C#21a, KM#260, Singh#C.21a |
| Obverse description | Central field displays the VOC (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) monogram balemark, surmounted by the numeral '4' above. The date 1798 appears in the exergue below the central device. The coin is framed by a toothed (dentilated) border. The legend 'VEIC 1798' is inscribed in Latin characters. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The keping was the VOC's copper small change for the Sumatran trade, struck at Batavia for circulation in the pepper-producing regions of the west coast. The 1798 date places this issue in the company's terminal years — the VOC was formally dissolved on 31 December 1799, its catastrophic debts absorbed by the Batavian Republic. Production discipline at Batavia had deteriorated badly by this point, and error pieces from these final runs are well-documented consequences of an institution already in administrative collapse.