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1 Gulden Silver voucher
| Issuer | Suriname |
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| Year | 1949 |
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| Reference(s) | P#106 |
| Obverse description | Green and dark brown on white paper. At left, a vignette of the bust of Mercury serves as the central figurative element, accompanied by an order number printed in black with two letter prefix. The face incorporates guilloche underprint work with the denomination and issuing authority inscriptions arranged across the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | SURINAME WETTIG BETAALMIDDEL EEN GULDEN JOH. ENSCHEDE EN ZONEN HAARLEM (Translation: Suriname Legal Tender One Gulden Joh. Enschedé and Sons Haarlem) |
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Suriname's 1 Gulden "zilvergoed" — silver voucher — notes were issued as fractional paper currency redeemable against silver coinage, a stopgap solution that persisted well into the postwar period as silver shortages made small-denomination coin production impractical. The series was produced by Enschedé in Haarlem, the same firm that had printed Dutch colonial currency across multiple territories for generations, and whose intaglio work set the quality standard for Netherlands-administered issues.
Pick 106 is among the later printings before Suriname moved toward a fully independent monetary structure in the 1950s.