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HIOTS TO COIX-COLLECTOES 
surmounted by a crown, and exactly resemble tbe " cballis I 
have already alluded to, except for the 1. S or 2. S in the 
field, and the milling which runs round the Jield and not, as in 
modern coins, round the edge. On the reverse we find^^ the 
name of the state, e.g., HOL-LAN-DIA or ZEE-LAN-DIA 
in three lines, vidth the date below. One meets, too, with six- 
stiver pieces, bearing on one side a ship and on the other the 
coat of arms surmounted by a crown and having in the field 
the date and value of the piece. The Dutch are also said to 
have issued a Eix-Dollar," but I have never come across a 
specimen, nor have I met any collector who has seen one: 
indeed, as far as I can learn, Bertolacci is the only author 
who ever mentions them.^^ Possibly he alludes to the 80 
stiver pieces, which, with dukatons and gold ducats are still to 
be seen, now and again, in the possession of the old Sinhalese 
gentry. As in 1783, Negapatam, the last Indian possession 
of the Dutch, was sold to the English, and in 1802 the peace 
14 The coins of FEIST A or WEST-FR-ISIA date back as far as 1660. 
In some specimens of this fine series we find instead of the usnal coat of arms 
a crowned lion rampant left, bearing in his right paw a sword and in his left 
a hunch of lightning. These names Frisia, Zeelandia, Hollandia, Gel Eae 
and so forth of course owe their origin to the Netherland proviDces of 
Frisland, Zeeland, Holland and Gelderland, just as England boasts of her 
Nova Scotia and her New South Wales, or the coins may have been struck 
in those provinces. 
'*Iu the part of the Bevue Beige d« Numismatique just published appears 
a translation by Count Maui-in Nahuys of a letter written by a Mr. Canter 
Visscher, a Dutch Chaplain in Cochin in 1743, in which he gives the 
following description of coins current at that period : 
" Les raonnaies paiennes ou hindoues etaient des pagodes, especes en or de 
" la valeur de deux risdales, ayant le meme poids que les ducats, mais d'lrn 
" titre inferiem-e. Ces pieces doivent leui-nom a I'image d'uneidole, qu'eUes 
" portent d'un cot^. « * * Les especes maiu-es en 
" cii'culation dans toutes les Indes etaient les roupies et dcini-roup 'us en or ou 
" en argent. 
"Les monnaies europeennes etaient, en argent, \qs ecus Axi risdahs, les 
" ducatons, les piastres espagiioles dites spaanache tnatten ; en or, les ducats et 
" enfin en cuivi-e, les dutcs et dcmi-diites. 
" La Compagnie des Indes orientales avait adopts le.;?o* u; comme ujiite 
" de comple, bien que le l isdak equivalent cu Europe a 50 sous et aux Indes 
