County: Srilanka (Ceylon)

Dutch East India Company

Denomination: Copper 1 Stuiver, Year: 1795

Mint: Colombo Mint

Obv: mintmark C (Colombo) above VOC monogram

Rev: value ".:. I .:. STUIVER" with date '1795' below

Weight: 13.0g, Size: 19.48mm

Ref: KM # 26,

complete date visible

choice very fine, Very Rare.

Note: This specimen is of the famous 'VOC Dump Stuivers' series of Ceylon that were struck at the local mints in Colombo, Galle, Trincomalee and Jaffna. 

VOC Dump coinage of Ceylon owed its existence to the constantly increasing shortage of small change in the province leading to the council of Colombo deciding to have copper Stuivers struck in Ceylon.