Dutch Ceilon - 1660-1720
Wreath Series Copper Dumps
Struck at Colombo, Jaffnapatnam and Negapatnam?, the Wreath series
copper dump coins there are three well-defined types, apparently
belonging to issues of the three different Mints.
- 1/8, 1/4, 1/2 and 1 Stuivers, thorny wreath (type C) struck at Jaffna.
1660-1720 (Scholten say "Long before 1741").
The fractional wreath Stuivers are only of this thorny type C.
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| KM16 | 1/8 Stuiver copper | coin
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| KM17 | 1/4 Stuiver copper | coin
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| KM18 | 1/2 Stuiver copper | coin
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| KM19.3 | One Stuiver copper | coin
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- 1 Stuivers, wreath type with two branches united at bottom (type B)
struck at Negapatnam.
About 1675. (Scholten say association with mint is "Assumed".)
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| KM19.2 | One Stuiver copper | coin
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- 1, 2, 6 Stuivers, with wreath of leaves (type A),
struck at Colombo
CA 1712 (Scholten say "Uncertain date").
Revolving clockwise (leaves on top pointing to left - type Aa) and anticlockwise (leaves on top pointing to right - type Ab).
From a Res. of Colombo dated Dec. 1, 1791 It appears that "for at
least 40 or 50 and surely many more years Doits (1/4 Stuivers) and
Dudus (Stuivers) struck earlier at Jaffnapatnam were in
circulation. These must have been of type C, which, therefore, will
have been struck long before 1741.
Although "Tammecas" (thambacassi = Copper Coin in Sinhala) was the
name for a 1/2 Stuiver, here it is used as a general term for "copper
coins from Ceylon" [The word "Dudu" (tuttu) was also used for copper
coins in the general sense In official documents (e.g., Dudu of I
doit). "Bazaruco" seems to have been the general term for lead coins.]
whose weight corresponded with that of the Tammecas. If we assume
that type B was coined at Negapatnam about 1675, then those of types
Aa and Ab were struck at Colombo.
Edited from
The Coins of the Dutch Overseas Territories- 1601-1948
C. Scholten, 1953, Amsterdam: Jacques Schulman.
