1799 Java Niederländisch Ostindien

1 Stuiver Notgeld aus eingeschmolzenen Kanonen.

These coins have the character of emergency coins. In 1799, the home country was overrun by French troops, so communications with the Netherlands East Indies were broken. A large shipment of Japanese copper was received in 1799 and coined into bonks (thick, rectangular pieces of copper, roughly cut on two sides). The same rise in the price of copper that brought about a wave of British trade tokens undercut the latest issue, so the coin shortage soon arose again.

Acting Governor-General Johannes Siberg (1740-1817) proposed a solution: coins made of an amalgam of ⅔ copper from worn cannons and ⅓ lead (presumably from local sources). The coins were struck from 1799 to 1803.