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1 Gulden Muntbiljet
| Issuer | Suriname |
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| Year | 1961-1986 |
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| Value | 1 Guilder (1 Gulden) (1 SRG) |
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| Obverse description | Dark green intaglio and black letterpress over a pale olive-green and brown underprint. The central vignette presents the High Court building — formerly the Ministry of Finance — with its distinctive white clock tower on Independence Square in Paramaribo, a flag rendered to the right. Denomination, issuing authority, registration details, and the name of the Minister of Finance appear in letterpress surrounding the vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Brown and green tones over an ornamental guilloche underprint. The statutory anti-counterfeiting warning referencing Article 260 of the Surinam Wetboek van Strafrecht (Criminal Code) occupies the central panel, flanked by the denomination value. The serial number, composed of two prefix letters followed by five digits, is set within the surrounding design. |
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Suriname's muntbiljetten — state treasury notes rather than central bank obligations — occupied a distinct legal category from the Centrale Bank's currency, a distinction that mattered less to users than to accountants. This 1 Gulden note remained in production across an unusually long print run, spanning the final decade of Dutch colonial administration through independence in 1975 and well into the republic period, with Enschedé in Haarlem supplying the sheets throughout without interruption.
The continuity of printer across a political rupture that dramatic is worth noting. Suriname changed sovereigns; the contract didn't.