| SPECIFICATIONS | |
| Denomination | 1/8 Stuiver |
| Alloy | Copper |
| Type | Struck |
| Diameter | 10.0 mm |
| Thickness | mm |
| Weight Legal | 1.8 gms |
| Weight | 1.25 gms |
| Shape | Round |
| Edge | Dump |
| DieAxis | O° |
| Mint | Contempory Fogery ? |
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| Schloten 1293; Mitchiner #2181; Krause #16 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Obverse : 1/8 St within a thorny wreath revolving
anticlockwise. leaves pointing right on top.
Reverse : Similer
In Scholten the legal weight of the Stuiver of Ceilon is quoted at the price of copper (ca.). For wreath 14.00 gms per Stuiver is given in Scholten and 14.40 gms is adopted by Mitchiner which is consistant with the other wreath dumps in this collection. This would make the upper 1/8 Stuiver dump 30% under weight like the Colombo 1/4 Stuiver dump and therefore maybe contemporary counterfeits unless both were issued when copper was relatively more expensive.
| KM16 | S1293a* | R | Eighth | Similar, but 1/8 St (type C) |
| KM16 | S1293b | R | Eighth | with large 8 |
| KM16 | S1293c | R | Eighth | larger letters |
This coin is listed as Rare in Scholten. The fractional wreath Stuivers are only of this thorny type C.
Text from
* Ceylon Coins and Currency By H. W. Codrington. Colombo 1924
Page 132 Chapter X Dutch - Coins of the Eastern Mints. Plate 126.
* The Coins of the Dutch Overseas Territories- 1601-1948
C. Scholten, 1953, Amsterdam: Jacques Schulman.
The coin was scanned at 600dpi and the images are displayed at 500dpi. This low weight specimen was obtained in 1999 December and has been replaced in 2000 August with a proper weight coin from Rajah Wickremesinhe an Author and collector in Colombo, Lanka.