DUTCH OCCUPATION INDIA 'CACHE' 'HALF DOUDOU' OR '1 CASH'   1693- 1698  WITH TAMIL INSCRIPTIONS

DUTCH INDIA: Copper 1-cash, Pondicherry. SCARCE!

Obverse	Formalized figure of deity (Kali?) standing facing.
Reverse	Three-line Tamil legend: Pudu / cher / i
Date	c. 1693-98
Weight	1.01 gm.
Diameter	9 mm.
Die axis	5 o'clock
Reference	MNI 1616 var
Comments	The Dutch occupied the French colony of Pondicherry for a brief 5 years 1693-98 and so this coin belongs to a very short issue.

Dutch India
Dutch India refers to the Dutch colonial possessions on the Indian subcontinent, while Dutch Indies refers to the far wider notions of the Dutch West Indies (in the Americas) and especially the Dutch East Indies (mainly present Indonesia, the colonial jewel in the Dutch crown, confusingly often informally called Indië ('India') in Dutch). Its capital was Cochin, on the Malabar coast.