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10 Gulden
| Issuer | Centrale Bank van Suriname |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Currency | Guilder (1826-2003) |
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| Obverse description | Green, purple, and brown intaglio printing over a multicolour guilloche underprint. A vignette of the Black-throated Mango hummingbird (Anthracothorax viridigula) occupies the left centre, with the Surinamese Coat of Arms at upper centre and a stylised insect motif as a design element. Ascending-size serial numbers are present, with the denomination numeral 10 at right. |
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| Obverse lettering | CENTRALE BANK VAN SURINAME 1 JANUARY 2000 Anthracothorax viridigula 10 (Translation: Central Bank of Suriname 1 January 2000 Anthracothorax viridigula 10) |
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The 2000 series marked a quiet transitional moment for Surinamese currency — the country had redenominated in 1994, replacing the old Surinamese guilder at par but under a reformed central banking structure following years of monetary turbulence driven by hyperinflation in the early 1990s. By 2000, the guilder itself had only a few years left; Suriname would adopt the Surinamese dollar in 2004, retiring the entire gulden series.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement kept production quality consistent across the late gulden issues, though the security specification here is modest — watermark only, with none of the foil or thread features appearing on higher denominations of the same period.