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1 Gulden Silver voucher

Emittent Surinaamsche Bank
Jahr 1918-1919
Typ Standard circulation banknote
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Vorderseitenbeschreibung Brown letterpress note with a fine guilloche underprint on cream paper. The title SURINAME appears at top centre, with ZILVERBON in large bold letters below and the denomination GROOT EEN GULDEN and numeral 1.00 at centre. Two manuscript signatures appear at lower left and right, attributed to the acting Administrator of Finance and the Governor of Suriname, above the legend WETTIG BETAALMIDDEL; a bottom panel carries the anti-counterfeiting warning text.
Vorderseitenlegende SURINAME ZILVERBON GROOT EEN GULDEN Wordt ter betaling aangenomen door de Surinaamsche Bank en aan alle Landskantoren. Inwisselbaar in zilver na aankondiging. Geregistreerd, 12 April 1918. De wnd. Administrateur van Financiën, De Gouverneur van Suriname, WETTIG BETAALMIDDEL Namaak of vervalsching is strafbaar met gevangenisstraf van ten hoogste negen jaren.
(Translation: SURINAME SILVER VOUCHER ONE GUILDER Is accepted for payment by the Surinaamsche Bank and at all land offices. Redeemable in silver upon announcement. Registered, 12 April 1918. The acting Administrator of Finance, The Governor of Suriname, LEGAL TENDER Counterfeiting or falsification is punishable by imprisonment of up to nine years.)
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These small-denomination silver vouchers were issued because wartime disruption to shipping between the Netherlands and Suriname made it nearly impossible to maintain adequate coin supplies in the colony. The "zilverbons" — silver vouchers — were paper substitutes for actual silver coinage, not banking instruments in the conventional sense, and the Surinaamsche Bank issued them under emergency authority to prevent a local currency crisis.

Enschedé, still printing from Haarlem, had handled Dutch colonial currency work for decades and was the logical choice. The 1918–1919 window is tight, and the series was retired once coin circulation normalized after the war.