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Did these also circulate in the Dutch colonies?
They would have, yes. The Dutch only had two coin-issuing colonies at the time: Netherlands Indies (now Indonesia), and the Netherlands Antilles (a few scattered islands in the Caribbean). Neither colony issued 1 cent coins in the 1880s.
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