Definition

• Also variously written Duyt, Dute, and Doit (q.v.), is a copper coin of the value of one eighth of a Stuiver, issued in the various provinces of the Low Countries from about 1580 to the beginning of the nineteenth century. According to the Munt Ordonnantie of 1586 it was equal to two Penninge.

  The Dutch Government also issued Duits in copper and lead for their possessions in Ceylon from 1782 to 1792, and for Java from 1764 to the early part of the nineteenth century. See Oord, and Pitje.

  The name is retained in the Dutch Indies as a popular appellation for the current one cent copper coin of Holland, and the two and one half cent piece is usually referred to as a Drie Duitstuk.

Quelle

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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