Note 85 — Chapter V · MORE OF CENTRAL JAVA

Doits are copper coins of endless variety, demonetised more than half a century ago but still used by the natives almost exclusively and to the prejudice of the legal “cent”, the hundredth part of the “guilder” or legal unit of the Dutch East Indian currency, notwithstanding the Government’s efforts (on paper) through the medium of financial geniuses, whose name is Legion and whose practical performance is Nihil, to put the monetary system and colonial finance in general on a firm, workable basis.