10 Ryxdaalders

By 1796, the VOC was functionally bankrupt — the company was dissolved on 31 December 1799 and its debts assumed by the Batavian Republic. Notes issued from Colombo in these final years circulated under an institution that was already collapsing administratively, with supply chains disrupted and local confidence in VOC paper severely eroded. The Ryxdaalder denomination itself was a Cape and Indian Ocean currency unit, distinct from European monetary conventions.

The official stamp as the sole security feature reflects the ad hoc nature of late-VOC monetary management in Ceylon, which the British had already seized from the Dutch earlier that same year.