VOC is a big and famous company during 17th century, which they call it Dutch East India Company, whereby VOC is their Dutch name of Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, I'm first come across the name of VOC is when I read about the well-known history of "Tulip Mania" which the story did mention VOC many times.
At that particular era, Dutch, like British also had colonize a very big part of world, so they also have their very own coinage history for each place they had been colonize before. The VOC Coinage history can be found here, and the coin they produce which they call it "Duit" at that time, the Duit history can be found here.
Recently found an interesting introduction on this VOC Silver Duit in a Facebook numismatic group. The author had mention that in Malaysia and Singapore, we normally found the Duit is copper coin, and the Silver Duit is later brought it to here from foreign country.
When the VOC Silver Duit appear, numismatic collector have many type of suggestion on this coin, some think it is proof coin, some think it is specimen and some think it is normal circulation coin, this is because NGC and PCGS is grading those coin as MS, only a few of them is getting SP (Specimen) grade.
Recently the author check the PCGS population , and found that PCGS is amending some of the MS graded VOC Silver Duit to SP, and furthermore PCGS had included a special note of "Ag Presentation" which clearly mean this Silver Duit is not the normal circulation coin.
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