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10 Florin
| Issuer | Banco Central di Aruba |
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| Year | 1986 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO CENTRAL DI ARUBA TIEN FLORIN DE DIRECTEUR DE PRESIDENT ARUBA JOH. ENSCHEDE EN ZONEN (Translation: Central Bank of Aruba / Ten Florin / The Director / The President / Aruba / Joh. Enschedé and Sons) |
| Reverse description | Multicolour reverse in green, beige, and orange, with matching Greek key guilloche border. At centre, the coat of arms of Aruba encircled by a laurel wreath, quartered with symbols of flora, the island's landscape, a clasped-hands motif, and a cogwheel; the date 1 JANUARI 1986 appears below the arms. At left, a large green numeral 10 within a geometric diamond medallion; at right, a star-burst cartouche enclosing a legal tender text in Dutch. Serial number appears twice in orange-red, at upper left and lower right. |
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Aruba separated from the Netherlands Antilles on 1 January 1986, and this note was issued that same year as part of the founding series of the Centrale Bank van Aruba — one of the first acts of the newly autonomous territory's financial infrastructure. The Aruban florin replaced the Netherlands Antillean guilder at par for Aruban transactions, a clean break with no revaluation required.
Enschedé had been printing Dutch colonial and Caribbean currency for generations by this point, and their Haarlem facility handled the entire inaugural series. The security thread on this issue is a simple unwindowed type, consistent with mid-1980s Enschedé production standards before the shift to wider feature threads later in the decade.