Java 1766 rupee

Steve Album sale 55, lot 3564

This specimen was lot 3564 in Steve Album Auction 55 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2026), where it sold for $264. The catalog description^[1] noted, "JAVA: AR rupee, 1766, United East India Company (VOC) issue, NGC graded EF45." This type was struck 1764-67, 1783-88. 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: 296,000 for 1765-67.

Specification: 13.15 g, 0.833 fine silver.

Catalog reference: KM 175.1, Scholten-457e (R).

Sources:

• 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.
• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Hanbing Feng, Auction 55, featuring Selections from the Swamperbob Gurney Collection of Cap & Ray 8 Reales, the Kenneth A. Bovenkamp Collection of Ottoman Coins and the 1914 Collection of World Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2026.

Link to:

• Java 1765 duit
• Java 1765 rupee
• 1766 half duit, struck in silver, Utrecht mint
• Java 1783 rupee
• Coins and currency dated 1766