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2 1/2 Gulden Silver voucher
| Issuer | Suriname |
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| Year | 1950 |
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| Size | 129 × 73 mm |
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| Reverse description | Printed in red-violet and purple. The centre is dominated by an elaborate diamond-shaped guilloche rosette with intricate lathe-work patterns, within which a horizontal panel carries the denomination legend 'TWEE EN EEN HALVE GULDEN' in white serif lettering on a dark ground. The numeral '2½' appears in large format at upper left and lower right. A block of anti-counterfeiting warning text in Dutch occupies the lower right quadrant, and the printer's imprint 'JOH. ENSCHEDÉ EN ZONEN HAARLEM' is set at the bottom right. |
| Reverse lettering | SURINAME WETTIG BETAALMIDDEL TWEE EN EEN HALVE GULDEN JOH. ENSCHEDE EN ZONEN HAARLEM (Translation: Suriname Legal Tender Two and a Half Gulden Joh. Enschedé and Sons Haarlem) |
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Suriname maintained a silver-backed voucher system well into the postwar period partly because the territory lacked its own central bank — the Centrale Bank van Suriname wasn't established until 1957. These gulden silver vouchers circulated under the authority of the colonial treasury, functioning as a practical substitute for coin in a supply-constrained economy where actual silver specie was chronically short. Enschedé in Haarlem had printed Surinamese currency material for decades by this point, and the relationship reflected a broader Dutch colonial printing monopoly rather than any competitive tender process.