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1000 Gulden
| Issuer | Centrale Bank van Suriname |
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| Year | 1963 |
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| Value | 1000 Guilders (1000 Gulden) (1000 SRG) |
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| Obverse description | Brown intaglio on multicolor guilloche underprint. At right, a finely engraved vignette of a Surinamese woman in traditional dress, wearing a beaded necklace and headdress with a torch, her portrait rendered in three-quarter view. The centre bears the large denomination text "DUIZEND GULDEN" above an elaborate radiating guilloche rosette in blue and orange, with an oval watermark window at left. The date "1 SEPTEMBER 1963" and a President's signature appear along the lower margin, flanked by the numeral "1000" at each corner. |
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| Protection description | Parrot's head |
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The 1963 Surinamese 1000 Gulden is the highest denomination issued by the Centrale Bank van Suriname under the early post-statute autonomous arrangement — Suriname had gained internal self-governance within the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1954, and the bank itself was only established in 1957. A 1000 Gulden note in 1963 represented serious purchasing power in a small, commodity-dependent economy, and was never a note ordinary workers handled routinely.
Enschedé's involvement was a natural choice given the colonial printing relationship, and designer C.A. Mechelse was a staff artist at the Haarlem firm.