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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;coin_nut, post: 3057997, member: 80148&quot;]1644 Batavia Coins</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>From Wikipedia: “In 1644 the VOC instructed a Chinese resident of Batavia named Conjok to mint copper coinage in denominations of a half and quarter stuiver to address the shortage of low denomination money. The VOC administrators in the Netherlands ordered this minting to cease after only five weeks, so not many coins were minted.”</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>From Scholten, page 37: “By a Placard of Aug. 19, 1644 it was decided “to grant the Chinaman named Conjok the sole right to produce a certain amount of copper Half and Quarter Stiver-pieces”. These coins were not only intended for Batavia and dependencies but were also designed to meet the scarcity of small change in Banda, Malacca and Ceylon. A prohibition by the Seventeen (despatch from home of Sept. 21, 1644) soon put an end to this coinage.”</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Lakdiva.org has this to say: “The East India Company of Batavia by a placard of 1644 August 19, it was decided to grant the Chinaman named <i>Conjok</i>the sole right to cast copper Half and Quarter Stuivers for use in Banda, Malacca. and Ceilon. A prohibition (despatch from Netherlands of 1644 Sept. 21) demonetized this emergency coinage in the Archipelago.”</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>*Note that these coins were cast, not minted. Several sources state that their weight varied considerably from the legal weight of 7.72 grams[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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