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Rh : 13. Copper. Two Duits.
 * Dated 1790. About twice as large as No. 12, but otherwise similar to it.
 * 14. Copper. One Duit.
 * Obv. Coat-of-arms, consisting of a crowned shield containing two lions passant.
 * Rev. VOC.svg 1792.
 * Except for date similar to Netscher and Chijs, pl. IV, fig. 22c.


 * 1. Copper. One Duit.
 * Obv. 'JAVA, 1810'. Below this the letter 'Z.'
 * Rev. A monogram of the two letters 'L. N.', standing for Louis Napoleon.
 * See Netscher and Chijs, p. 112, No. 60; pl. VII, fig. 60a.
 * 2. Copper. Two Duits.
 * Obv. 'JAVA'. Date effaced.
 * Rev. 'L. N.'

The Malacca collection contains a copper coin, probably one Duit, of the following description:

Obverse: Coat-of-arms consisting of a crowned shield enclosing a lion rampant, with the figures '5' and '$1⁄16$' to the right and left of the shield respectively.

Reverse: the legend INDIÆ BATAV, 1816.

In 1816 Java was handed back by the British to the Dutch, and as the coin bears a coat-of-arms used by the Dutch East India Company throughout the eighteenth century, there is no reasonable doubt that the coin is of Dutch, not British origin. Coins identical with it, except for the date, were issued by the Batavian Republic previous to the English occupation of Java, and by the Dutch Government after the English occupation, and the Raffles Museum contains such coins of the years 1802, 1818, 1819, 1821 and 1824. But the Museum also contains a coin of 1815, that is a coin struck in Batavia with the Dutch coat-of-arms during the time of the English rule. Therefore it is just