Catalog
1 Gulden Silver voucher
| Issuer | Suriname |
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| Year | 1951 |
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| Currency | Guilder (1826-2003) |
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| Obverse lettering | SURINAME ZILVERBON GROOT EEN GULDEN UITGEGEVEN KRACHTENS LANDSVERORDENING VAN 21 MEI 1940 (G. B. No.55), GEWIJZIGD BIJ LANDSVERORDENING VAN 19 MEI 1941 (G. B. No.49) GEREGISTREERD: PARAMARIBO, 1 MAART 1951. (Translation: Suriname Silver Voucher Big One Gulden Issued under country regulation of May 21, 1940 (G.B. No.55), amended by country ordinance of May 19, 1941 (G.B. No.49) Registered: Paramaribo, March 1st., 1951.) |
| Reverse description | Brown and green on white paper. The central design is a large, intricately worked diamond-shaped guilloche medallion in green, enclosing the denomination legend "EEN GULDEN" in a horizontal cartouche. Numeral "1" appears in brown at upper left and lower left corners, with a vertical band of fine guilloche lacework at right and a block of anti-counterfeiting legal text in the lower right. |
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Suriname's gulden-denominated silver vouchers were redeemable in silver coin rather than functioning as conventional banknotes — a deliberate policy holdover from the colonial monetary framework, maintained well into the postwar period. The 1951 series continued an arrangement where the Surinaamsche Bank issued these certificates against actual silver reserves, a system that was already anachronistic by the time this note entered circulation.
Enschedé's involvement with Dutch colonial currency printing was longstanding, and the Haarlem firm printed virtually the entire Surinamese paper money output during this period.