| SPECIFICATIONS | |
| Denomination | One Rupee |
| Alloy | Silver.8455 |
| Type | Struck |
| Diameter | ~22. mm |
| Thickness | __._ mm |
| Weight legal | 9.882 gms |
| Weight | 9.91 gms |
| Shape | Round |
| Edge | CounteMark |
| DieAxis | ___° |
| Mint | Colombo |
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| Codrington PL128; Schloten 1262; Krause #31.2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obverse : | Malay-Arabic Legend in Rim of radial dashes | 
| Wang Walan-d Kompani Kolom-bu | Coin Holland Company Colombo |
| Reverse : | Malay-Arabic Legend 4 dot cross above Year 1787 below. | 
| Puqu djaziret Sailung | Money, Island (of) Ceylon |
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They were emergency coins and in the absence of an assayer attached
to the Mint at Colombo, they were tested by the sworn assayer and given a
hall-mark (Kleine Keur) on the edge. A mango tree with a dove
(Columbus) on it between K-K
The inscription in better executed in abbreviated Malay-Arabic letters. 20,000 were struck in 1787. It is listed as extremely rare (RRR) in Scholten. See also the classic heavier 1784 Colombo Silver coin from that Dutch era. According to the Minting Reports in 1788(65,000) and 1789(>37,500) were struck again to that Surat standard in Tutucorin but none are known. | 
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Text from
* Ceylon Coins and Currency By H. W. Codrington. Colombo 1924
Chapter X Dutch - Coins of the Eastern Mints. Plate 128. Page 132
* The Coins of the Dutch Overseas Territories- 1601-1948
C. Scholten, 1953, Amsterdam: Jacques Schulman. page 148-149
The XF coin was scanned at 300dpi and the images are displayed at 300dpi.
It was illustrated lot#37 in Taisei-Baldwin-Gillio Auction #19 of
Richard Ford collection of The Colonial Coinage of Ceylon,
held in Singapore on 1995 February 23rd.
I thank Jan Lingen who kindly sent me the 300 dpi scans of this
extremely rare coin from his collection and are displayed at 300 dpi.