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1 Gulden Silver voucher
| Issuer | Suriname |
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| Year | 1951 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue-green and dark brown on white paper. At left, a vignette of Mercury's bust serves as the central figurative element, set against a guilloche underprint in blue-green tones. The order number is printed in black with two letters, consistent with the earlier P#106 type. |
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| 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.