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500 Florin
| Issuer | Centrale Bank van Aruba |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Printer | Royal Joh. Enschedé (Koninklijke Joh. Enschedé, Johan Enschede en Zonen), Haarlem, Netherlands (1703-date) |
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| Obverse description | Blue and multicolour note centred on a vignette of a Red Grouper (Mero, Epinephelus morio), rendered in fine intaglio detail against a guilloche underprint. The denomination 500 FLORIN appears in the upper left and lower right corners, with the issuer inscription CENTRALE BANK VAN ARUBA and the Dutch legal-tender legend WETTIG BETAALMIDDEL carried in the surrounding letterpress. The scientific name MERO - EPINEPHELUS MORIO is inscribed below the fish vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Blue and multicolour. The central vignette consists of a mosaic in Pre-Columbian decorative style, rendered within a guilloche border. The serial number is printed in the upper left and lower right areas of the note. |
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The 500 Florin is the highest denomination Aruba has ever issued, and it remains genuinely uncommon in circulation — the island's economy runs heavily on tourism in small transactions, leaving large-denomination notes mostly in commercial banking channels. Enschedé's long relationship with Dutch Caribbean issuers goes back well before Aruba's separate Status Aparte in 1986, though this particular note postdates that transition by nearly two decades.
Fingal's involvement as designer is worth noting — local artistic input on Caribbean currency was not always the norm when Enschedé handled production from Haarlem.