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10 000 Gulden
| Issuer | Centrale Bank van Suriname |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Value | 10 000 Guilders (10 000 Gulden) (10 000 SRG) |
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| Obverse lettering | Centrale Bank van Suriname 5 OCTOBER 1997 10,000 GULDEN Tien Duizend GULDEN (Translation: Central Bank of Suriname October 5, 1997 10,000 Gulden Ten Thousand Gulden) |
| Reverse description | Multicolour guilloche underprint with a vignette of an alumina processing plant with distinctive red storage tanks at centre right; the national Coat of Arms appears at lower left, with a Long-billed Gnatwren vignette at left. The legal warning against counterfeiting citing Article 260 of the Surinamese Criminal Code is printed along the lower margin. |
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By 1997, Suriname's currency had been in freefall for years — hyperinflation through the early 1990s had rendered lower denominations functionally useless, forcing the Centrale Bank to issue notes at denominations that would have been unthinkable a decade earlier. This 10,000 Gulden was a direct consequence of that collapse, not a routine high-denomination addition to an otherwise stable series.
The Surinamese Gulden was ultimately replaced by the Surinamese Dollar in January 2004, at a conversion rate of 1,000 Gulden to 1 Dollar — a ratio that says everything about what the intervening years had done to the currency's purchasing power.