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| Issuer | Suriname |
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| Year | 1951 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue-green and dark brown on white paper. At left, a vignette of Mercury's bust serves as the central figurative element, set against a guilloche underprint in blue-green tones. The order number is printed in black with two letters, consistent with the earlier P#106 type. |
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| Obverse lettering | SURINAME ZILVERBON GROOT EEN GULDEN UITGEGEVEN KRACHTENS LANDSVERORDENING VAN 21 MEI 1940 (G. B. No.55), GEWIJZIGD BIJ LANDSVERORDENING VAN 19 MEI 1941 (G. B. No.49) GEREGISTREERD: PARAMARIBO, 1 MAART 1951. (Translation: Suriname Silver Voucher Big One Gulden Issued under country regulation of May 21, 1940 (G.B. No.55), amended by country ordinance of May 19, 1941 (G.B. No.49) Registered: Paramaribo, March 1st., 1951.) |
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Suriname's gulden-denominated silver vouchers were redeemable in silver coin rather than functioning as conventional banknotes — a deliberate policy holdover from the colonial monetary framework, maintained well into the postwar period. The 1951 series continued an arrangement where the Surinaamsche Bank issued these certificates against actual silver reserves, a system that was already anachronistic by the time this note entered circulation.
Enschedé's involvement with Dutch colonial currency printing was longstanding, and the Haarlem firm printed virtually the entire Surinamese paper money output during this period.