| SPECIFICATIONS | |
| Denomination | Two Stuiver |
| Alloy | Copper |
| Type | Struck |
| Diameter | 23.0 mm |
| Thickness | mm |
| Weight Legal | 28.80 gms |
| Weight | 25.82 gms |
| Shape | Round |
| Edge | Dump |
| DieAxis | O° |
| Mint | Colombo |
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| Schloten 1290a; Mitchiner #2172; Krause #20 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Obverse : II st within a wreath revolving
clockwise (leaves point to left on top Schloten Type Aa) as in coin shown.
Reverse : Similer
| KM20 | S1289a* | R | Two | II St in leafy wreath (Aa) on both sides |
| KM20 | S1289b | R | Two | on one side II.St |
| KM20 | S1289c | R | Two | II and St of equal size |
| KM20 | S1289d | S | Two | leafy wreath (type Ab) |
It appears that this type A Stuiver copper dump coin were struck at Colombo mint. According to Mitchiner the 2-Stuiver only occurs in the "top leaves left" series.
Text from
* Ceylon Coins and Currency By H. W. Codrington. Colombo 1924
Page 132 Chapter X Dutch - Coins of the Eastern Mints. Plate 131.
* The Coins of the Dutch Overseas Territories- 1601-1948
C. Scholten, 1953, Amsterdam: Jacques Schulman.
The coin was scanned at 300dpi and the images are displayed at 250dpi. It was obtained in November 1999 from Waruna Jayasinghe, an antiques dealer in Kandy, Lanka.