Obv ;C VOC - Colombo mint .
(Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie.)
Rev ;STUIVER - 1785 AD
The
Dutch East India Company established trading posts on different parts along the Indian coast. For some while, they controlled the
Malabar southwest coast (
Cranganore/Cranganor/Kodungallor, Cochin de Cima/Pallipuram,
Cochin, Cochin de Baixo/
Santa Cruz,
Quilon (Coylan),
Cannanore,
Kundapura, Kayankulam, Ponnani) and the
Coromandel southeastern coast (Golkonda, Bimilipatnam, Jaggernaikpoeram/
Kakinada, Palikol,
Pulicat,
Porto Novo/Parangippettai, Negapatnam) and Surat (1616-1795). They conquered
Ceylon, nowadays
Sri Lanka (1658 - 1796), from the Portuguese. The Dutch also established trading stations in
Travancore and coastal
Tamil Nadu as well as at
Rajshahi in present-day
Bangladesh, Pipely,
Hugli-Chinsura, and
Murshidabad in present-day
West Bengal,
Balasore (Baleshwar or Bellasoor) in
Orissa, and
Ava,
Arakan, and Syriam in present-day
Myanmar (Burma). Ceylon was lost at the
Congress of Vienna in the aftermath of the
Napoleonic Wars, where the Dutch having fallen subject to France, saw their colonies raided by Britain. The Dutch later became less involved in India, as they had the
Dutch East Indies (now
Indonesia) as their prized possession.
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