| SPECIFICATIONS | |
| Denomination | Six Stuiver |
| Alloy | Copper |
| Type | Struck |
| Length | 118. mm |
| Width(max) | 17. mm |
| Thickness | mm |
| Weight Legal | 82.4 gms |
| Weight | 76.52 gms |
| Shape | Bar |
| Edge | Dump |
| Mint | Colombo |
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| Schloten 1288a; Mitchiner #Unlisted; Krause #21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Obverse : St within leafy wreath at left end of bar and VI in similar wreath
at right end of bar
Reverse : same design as obverse
| KM21 | S1288a* | RRR | Six | on both sides to right VI and to left St |
| KM22 | S1288b | RRR | Six | VI repeated on obverse, St repeated on reverse |
Scholten states clearly the date is uncertain on this type A Stuiver copper coin are assumed to have been struck at Colombo mint. Circa 1712 is listed in Krause with unknown source. According to Jan Lingen the wreath type coin was already current in 1674 and the 1712 date is much to late
This coin is listed as RRR (extremely Rare) in Scholten.
The Dick Ford collection (in Taisei-Baldwin-Gillio Auction#19 1995
February 23 Singapore lot#48) sold for hammer price of
US$1,400/-.(+10% buyers premium).
It has a curious DXCII (roman 592) written accross the middle of the
lower image. According to Jan Lingen . quite often museums in
olden days put their inventory number on the objects concerned.
Text from
* The Coins of the Dutch Overseas Territories- 1601-1948
C. Scholten, 1953, Amsterdam: Jacques Schulman.
I thank Jan Lingen who kindly sent me a 600dpi scan of this VF coin from his collection. The images was compessed to 200dpi to enable the full image to be displayed on most moniters and displayed at 150dpi.