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1/2 Gulden Silver voucher
| Issuer | Surinaamsche Bank |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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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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| Reverse lettering | ZILVERBON - SURINAME VIJFTIG CENT Het namaken of vervalschen van zilverbons met het oogmerk om die als echt en onvervalst uit te geven, of te doen uitgeven, wordt gestraft met gevangenisstraf van ten hoogste negen jaren. WETTIG BETAALMIDDEL (Translation: Silver Voucher - Suriname Fifty Cents Counterfeiting or falsifying silver notes with the intention of presenting them as genuine and unfalsified, or causing them to be so presented, shall be punishable by imprisonment not exceeding nine years. Legal Tender) |
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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.