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Obv. A Crown surmounting "10 Ct.": below, the words "NEDERLANDSCH INDIE" in two lines. There are two flaws in the die.

Rev. In the centre, within a scroll work border, the date "1914." Above in Javanese character and below in Malay "One-tenth part of a guilder."

2. Five cents: struck at Batavia, Java: made of tin with a little lead: circular: size 26.5 mm. Plain edge: a thick coin of 3 mm. Description from a specimen given to me by Mr. Moquette. [Plate V. figs. 26 and 27].

Obv. Within a beaded circle a Crown surmounting "5 Ct." Outside and above, the word "NEDERLANDSCH" and below "INDIE." To left the mint-mark of a sea-horse (the conventional mark of the Dutch mint-master Dr. C. Hoitzema); to right a caduceus (the conventional marque d'atelier of Utrecht).

Rev. Within a beaded circle in Malay "One twentieth part of a guilder" outside and around, the same in Javanese character, and at foot "1914."