25 000 Gulden

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.