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COIN
Unique ID: YORYM-1017CC
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A complete copper alloy duit of Zeeland issued by the Dutch East India Company, dated 1765. Arms of Zeeland reverse.
Similar examples can be seen on the PAS database, for example: CORN-4636C5, YORYM-647B02 and YORYM-2D0746.
By the seventeenth century the Netherlands had become a prosperous country through its shipping trade across Europe and its trade links with the Far East. The United Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) was formed in 1602 in order to unite various small trade companies which had created commercial links with India and the Far East during the late sixteenth century. With bases in Sri Lanka, India and Indonesia, the Company became a powerful trade organization. It was even given powers of rule over its dominions, along similar lines to those of the English East India Company. Like its British rival, the Dutch East India Company issued coins for trade in its dominions.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1765
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 2.4 g
Diameter: 21 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Coin data (numismatics)
Denomination: Duit
Ruler/issuer: Republic of the United Netherlands
Mint or issue place: Zeeland
Type: Republic of the United Netherlands: copper duit
Obverse description: Wreath with central inscription
Obverse inscription: ZELAN//DIA//1765
Reverse description: Arms of Zeeland - rampant lion emerging from sea
Reverse inscription: None
Die axis measurement: 12 o'clock
Degree of wear: Very worn: fair
Coin references
No coin references available.
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: York (Unitary Authority)
District: York (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Copmanthorpe (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE5546
Four figure Latitude: 53.90724806
Four figure longitude: -1.1643015
1:25K map: SE5546
1:10K map: SE54NE
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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