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5 Gulden
| Issuer | Centrale Bank van Suriname |
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| Year | 1957 |
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| Reference(s) | P#111 |
| Obverse description | Blue intaglio print on multicolour underprint. A vignette at centre-right presents a smiling woman wearing a necklace and carrying a fruit basket on her head, a traditional motif evoking the colony's agricultural heritage. At the right border, a torch and a band bearing the date of issue are printed, with the issuing authority's name and denomination inscriptions framing the design. |
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| Protection description | Parrot's head |
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Suriname was still a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1957, and the Centrale Bank van Suriname had only been established four years earlier, in 1957 — the bank's inaugural series. Enschedé, the long-established Haarlem security printer with centuries of experience producing Dutch state documents, was the natural choice for a newly independent monetary authority working within the Dutch institutional orbit.
C.A. Mechel's design credit is relatively rare to encounter explicitly named on Caribbean colonial-era transitional issues, making the attribution here worth noting for researchers tracing Enschedé's mid-century design staff.