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2 Keping
| Issuer | United East India Company (VOC/VEIC) |
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| Year | 1783 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a bold Arabic-script inscription in Jawi style arranged in two registers separated by a horizontal dividing line. The upper register reads 'Dua Keping' (Two Kepings) in stylised Arabic lettering, while the lower register displays the Hijri year 1197, corresponding to 1783 CE. A small numeral '2' appears at the upper field. The design is set within a plain field with a reeded border at the rim. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The VOC's kepings were struck for circulation in Ceylon and along the Malabar Coast, where the company maintained trading posts and needed low-denomination copper for local market transactions. By 1783, the VOC was in serious financial decline — rampant corruption, shareholder dividend payments funded by borrowing, and losses from the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War had left the company effectively insolvent. It would be nationalized by the Batavian Republic just thirteen years later.
Pridmore's attribution (Pr#9) places this among a small set of documented die marriages for the 1783 issue.