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25 000 Gulden
| Issuer | Centrale Bank van Suriname |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Currency | Guilder (1826-2003) |
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| Reverse description | Orange and green multicolour underprint. The Central Bank building is rendered as a central background vignette, overlaid by a large botanical illustration of the Caribbean spider lily (Hymenocallis caribaea) in green and white. A golden tree frog is depicted at lower left, and a circular bank seal appears at right centre. The large numeral 25000 in colour-shifting tones dominates the upper left, with the full denomination spelled out in Dutch at lower right. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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Suriname's shift to high-denomination notes in the late 1990s was driven by chronic inflation that had eroded the gulden's purchasing power to near-absurdity — by 2000, 25,000 gulden was a routine transactional amount rather than a large sum. The currency was replaced entirely in January 2004 when the Surinamese dollar was introduced at a conversion rate of 1,000 gulden to 1 dollar, rendering the entire gulden series obsolete within four years of this note's issue.
Thomas De La Rue's production for Suriname during this period used comparatively minimal security — watermark and thread only, without the optically variable features that had become common elsewhere by 2000.