Java 1799 stuiver

Stack's Bowers 2026 ANA sale, lot 46525

This specimen was lot 46525 in Stack's Bowers Summer 2026 Global Showcase Auction (Pittsburgh, September 2026), where it sold for $292.80. The catalog description^[1] noted, "NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. Java (under Batavian Republic). Stuiver, 1799. NGC VF-30." This denomination was also struck in bonk form (KM 180). This crude type was struck 1799-1800. The VOC and the succeeding administration (the VOC was liquidated in 1800) struck rupees in silver and half rupees in gold until 1815. Java, the chief island of Indonesia, was occupied by the British 1811-16. After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Indonesia was returned to the Dutch but the English kept their colonies in Malaya, especially Singapore.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 15.4 g, copper, 24.5 mm diameter, obliquely reeded edge.

Catalog reference: KM-205; Sch-553.

Source:

Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
Passon, Tom, Catalogus van de Munten van de Nederlandse Gebieden Overzee, vanaf 1601 tot heden, Apeldoorn, Netherlands, 2022.
Scholten, C., The Coins of the Dutch Overseas Territories, 1601-1948, Amsterdam: Jacques Schulman, 1953.
van der Wis, Jan, and Tom Passon, Catalogus van de Nederlandse Munten geslagen sind bet aantreden van Philips II tot aan het einde van de Bataafse Republiek (1555-1806), 2nd ed., Apeldoorn, Netherlands: Omni-Trading b.v., 2009.
^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, Summer 2026 Global Showcase Auction, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2026.

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