Indonesia, Java. 1/2 Stiver Java 1811 Local Copper imitation Years: 1811-1815 (No reserve price)

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½ Stuiver 1811 Local Copper imitation Years: 1811-1815

These coins were produced and circulated locally in Java, and possibly in Sumatra and copied the design of the then-circulating ½ Stuiver during British Occupation of Java. Many of the imitations, or contemporary counterfeits, do not feature such strong crudeness and amateurishness. Of a collection of around 35, only around half had any major mirrored or misplaced characters while the rest simply featured crude and hand-carved lettering. The coin shown is the only one that revealed the vertically swapped fraction, the ""2/1"" rather than the common ""1/2"". All the imitations weigh in to mere fractions of the supposed 5 g. standard. It is likely that there are some ""impossible dates"" where it is marked to outside of the 1811-1815 official minting.

Actual dimensions:
diameter: 25,1 mm,
Weigth: 1,5 gram.

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