| SPECIFICATIONS | |
| Denomination | Two Stuiver |
| Alloy | Copper |
| Type | Struck |
| Diameter | 26. mm |
| Thickness | mm |
| Weight Legal | 26.70 gms |
| Weight | 23.27 gms |
| Shape | round |
| Edge | Dump |
| DieAxis | O° |
| Mint | Jaffna |
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| Schloten 1324c; Mitchiner #2199; Krause #29 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Obverse : I (Jaffna) above VOC monogram between Annulets; Value 2.S. below.
Reverse : Year (17)93; Annulet O above; value in Tamil y:@. = P 1/2 P (fanam 1/2 ) below;
Both sides within Rim of dashes.
This coin is 13% under legal weight.
Also see the coin with Tamil
letters interchanged and even the variety
listed in Scholten
for this type.
Text from
* Ceylon Coins and Currency By H. W. Codrington. Colombo 1924
Page 134 Chapter X Dutch - Coins of the Eastern Mints. C - Jaffna Plate 137.
* The Coins of the Dutch Overseas Territories- 1601-1948
C. Scholten, 1953, Amsterdam: Jacques Schulman.
I thank Jan Lingen who kindly sent me the 600 dpi scans of this
rare coin from his collection which I have reduced to 300 dpi
and are displayed at 250 dpi.