Catalog
1/2 Gulden Silver voucher
| Issuer | Surinaamsche Bank |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Guilder (1826-2003) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue, olive, and multicolour. The face carries the title inscription "SILVERBON" and issuer name "SURINAME" with the denomination "VIJFTIG CENT" and a detailed guilloche underprint. The serial number, consisting of one or two prefix letters followed by six digits, appears on the note along with the place and date of issue, Paramaribo, 1 Augustus 1920. |
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| Obverse lettering | SILVERBON - SURINAME GRROT VIJFTIG CENT Wordt ter betaling aangenomen door de Surinaamsche Bank en aan alle landskassen. Inwisselbaar in zilver na aankondiging. Paramaribo, 1 Augustus 1920. (Translation: Silver Voucher - Suriname Big Fifty Cents Is accepted for payment by the Surinaamsche Bank and to all national treasuries. Redeemable in silver upon announcement. Paramaribo, August 1, 1920.) |
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The Surinaamsche Bank's silver vouchers of this era were backed by — or nominally redeemable for — silver coin, a distinction that mattered considerably in a colony where metallic currency was chronically scarce and public trust in paper ran thin. The half-gulden denomination was the smallest in this voucher series, designed to plug the gap left by small-change shortages that plagued Dutch Surinam well into the early twentieth century.
Pick 101 is genuinely difficult to source in any condition. Low-denomination circulating paper takes hard use, and Surinam's tropical humidity accelerated deterioration.