New York Pennies
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 9:26 amI was looking on Ebay to see what older coins that were there that might help with the YEAR BY YEAR PROJECT http://realcent.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=11622 if we got stuck a found this http://www.ebay.com/itm/171089133286?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1431.l2649 . I found out this is a Ebay scam see http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php?topic=2780.0. Looks like I might be buying a over priced coin as my top bid is $3. 
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VOC coins never circulated in what is now New York. The reason is that at the peace of Westphalia in 1648, the Spanish Habsburgs recognized the Republic (as the Netherlands was known at the time), but part of the price was restrictions on trade with the Americas, especially what is now Latin America. Therefore, the VOC did not have a mandate to operate in the Americas.
The Dutch colony in New Amserdam was financed and supplied (and Manhattan was bought) by the West India Company (WIC), whose main business was slave, coffee and sugar trading (a sad story). The WIC did issue its own coins, but only from 1793, while New Amsterdam was traded for what is now Surinam in 1667 (Treaty of Breda). You have to be a confirmed know-nothing to believe that VOC coins dated 1790 would have circulated in a what had been a British colony for well over a century by that time.