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coins, showing the chally with its fractions, and the pice or 

 stiver with its fractions : 



1 Stuiver 1783, about the weight of four challies, each of 

 which is about 47 grs. or nearly one-sixth of a penny English 

 by weight No. 11. 



J Stuiver of 48 grs. or a chally. No. 12. 



Copper coin of 20 grs. bearing date 1753 No. 13. 



Copper coin of 16^ or 17 grs, which is about one-third of 

 a chally, and in weight less than a quarter farthing English. 

 No. 14. 



The chally and stiver had also their multiples ; the former 

 in copper, and the latter in silver. 



The colony in coming into the English possession was held 

 under the East India Company, and in the year 1800 a new 

 supply of copper was sent out from England by that Company 

 in whole half and quarter stivers. But in the beginning of 

 1802 the Government of the Island was put immediately under 

 the Crown. Then for the first time were coined silver rix-dol- 

 lars ; and Treasury notes issued for rix-dollars at the rate of 

 48 copper stivers for each rix-dollar. A new copper coin was 

 also made : but the rix-dollar, not the copper coin, was now the 

 regulating medium. The rix-dollar was composed of an alloy 

 of Japan copper agreeably to the standard of the Spanish 

 piastre. Several issues of all these — the copper and silver 

 coinage and the Treasury notes — were made during the years 

 1802, 3, 4, and 5 : the rix-dollar being at this time intrinsically 

 worth Is. 6^d. In 1808 a new coinage took place, the previous 

 silver coin having disappeared : but with an addition of 10 

 per cent, alloy ; so that the rix-dollars of 1808 andl809 were worth 

 but Is. A\d. Both silver and copper however, continued to dis- 

 appear, by melting and exportation ; and in 1812 there was 

 little else to be had but paper currency. 



