Catalog
10 000 Gulden
| Issuer | Centrale Bank van Suriname |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| In circulation to | 2004 |
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| Obverse description | Brown, black, and red intaglio print on multicolour underprint. Central vignette of a pair of ornate hawk-eagles (Spizaetus ornatus) at left centre, with the Coat of Arms of Suriname at upper centre. Ascending-size serial number printed in black. |
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| Reverse lettering | DE LA RUE CENTRALE BANK VAN SURINAME 10000 Clusia Grandiflora 10000 TIEN DUIZEND GULDEN NADRUK VERBODEN: SURINAAMS WETBOEK VAN STRAFRECHT ARTIKEL 260 (Translation: De La Rue Central Bank of Suriname Clusia Grandiflora 10000 Ten Thousand Gulden Counterfeiting Forbidden: Suriname Criminal Law, Article 260) |
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Suriname's highest-denomination note at time of issue, the 10,000 Gulden arrived in 2000 during a period of severe monetary instability — annual inflation had exceeded 100% in the mid-1990s, and the gulden had lost the overwhelming majority of its exchange value against the dollar. Notes of this size were a symptom, not a solution.
The series was short-lived. Suriname replaced the gulden entirely in January 2004, converting at 1,000 gulden to one Surinamese dollar, which rendered this denomination worth precisely ten of the new units at par.