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United States
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I just wonder is there any Netherlands and Nederlands Indie collectors among us? And where they are located?
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Australia
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I live in Northern Australia, and visit Indonesia most years.
In the past, I have visited Malaysia, and nearby countries.
I only have a small number of pre-1945 coins, but I have an interest in the people, places, and their history, and I would cheerfully pick up any coins that I stumbled over, if not expensive. I am slowly building a type-set of the coins of Sarawak.
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United States
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I would not call myself a collector of Netherlands coins more a collector of world coins but I do have several coins from Netherlands and Netherlands Indie that I find very interesting.
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Valued Member
 United States
322 Posts |
Hi Peter THOMAS and WVUcoins, Nice to know you guys.
It looks like there are only few of us in this forum collecting Netherlands and Ned Indie.
I have MANY pre 1945, Nederlands Indies and The Netherlands started from early 19th century. I was born in Java and started collecting coins on my early age.
But now, I am selling everything in the forum for good cause. I also try to sell to The Netherlands, since there must be a lot more collectors there.
Peter, since you love coins and history, I will tell you that the Dutch found out that the fastest way to sail to Indie is straight from South Africa to West Australia, and then go north to Indie. People found Dutch ship wrecks in West Australia. Do you know what they brought most to Indie? They brought coins for Indies monetaries and to buy goods, also to add weight to stabilize their ships. I learn that they even brought bricks in the past to build fortress and churches for same reason.
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United States
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I have a small and modest collection of Netherlands East Indies coins. The pre-1850's ones are only in good condition but they are nice copper coins.
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United States
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United States
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Peter THOMAS, the story getting a lot more interesting. http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/...hip-mystery/Hugh Edwards and his team believe the Aagtekerke struck Half Moon Reef in the archipelago off Geraldton when it disappeared en route to Indonesia in 1726. Next month they hope to find some of the three tonnes of silver coins the ship was carrying between the Cape of Good Hope and Jakarta that could prove the wreck is in the Abrolhos Islands. Three tons of pre 1726 coins are whole lots of Dough today.This is only one of them, there are 1,400 shipwrecks. |
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United States
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I was stationed at Soesterberg AB, The Netherlands (89-92) (our squadron patch is my avatar) and kept quite a few 5 cent through 5 Gulden coins since the exchange would not accept coinage just bills for dollars. I wish that I would have kept a few of the bills for they were very colorful, especially the 50 Gulden with the bee on the sunflower;  Not so much a collection, rather an accumulation, with a few "newer" ones added in;  Edited by oih82w8
09/01/2012 9:09 pm
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Canada
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Sorry for replying to an old topic, but I'd just like to say that I inherited some VOC-era coins from my grandmother. I had to leave them back home when I came to study abroad though. I think they were minted about 1940s. There were a couple of stacks of them each stacked together by sellotape. Didn't have the chance yet to look at them one by one, but I remember that they were very worn and dirty. |
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Belgium
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Quote:Sorry for replying to an old topic, but I'd just like to say that I inherited some VOC-era coins from my grandmother. I had to leave them back home when I came to study abroad though. I think they were minted about 1940s. SlurExe97, are you sure about the century of mintage? Most of the VOC coins I am aware of, were minted in the late 18th and early 19th century. All of those are non-decimal fractions of a guilder. |
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United States
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I'm in the US and pick up rijders and leeuwendaalders when they turn up. rondomons.nl has been a good source, but I sometimes see them at shops or coin shows.
"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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Canada
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Sorry, I meant Dutch colonisation era. My history is awful and I often mix up the two. Sorry.
I'm not sure about the mintage year. I'm just guessing since I don't remember. The ones I remember looking at has the value of 1/2 sen, and they have the writing Nederlands-Indie on them.
Just saying, Indonesian independence is proclaimed at 1945, but isn't officially recognised until 1949 almost 1950. So I think the Dutch would still be minting coins.
There are also very dirty and crumpled paper money which I don't remember what they are.
Just a fun fact: Indonesians call paper money in that condition "uang busuk" literally meaning "smelly money".
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03/12/2014 3:01 pm
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United Kingdom
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the 2 1/2 cents fit into my "bronze penny" collection   David |
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Netherlands
173 Posts |
Here Kingdom of the Netherlands in better qualities (1813-2001)
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Valued Member
United States
262 Posts |
My collecting areas include Spain and Netherlands. I'm a fan of Wilhelmina.
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United States
567 Posts |
I still collect Dutch East Indies from VOC through the 1820's. I pick up a piece here and there every now and then. Working on a full date/province set of VOC duits.
Just picked up a 1799 Stuiver, one of the emergency issues.
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