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10 Florin
| Issuer | Centrale Bank van Aruba |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Value | 10 Florin (10 AWG) |
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| Obverse description | Blue and multicolour note with a central-right vignette of a Caribbean Crown Conch (Melongena melongena), rendered in naturalistic detail against a guilloche underprint. The denomination "10 FLORIN" appears in the upper left and lower right corners, with the issuer name "CENTRALE BANK VAN ARUBA" inscribed across the note. The species name "CALCO INDJAN - MELONGENA MELONGENA" is lettered beneath the shell vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 FLORIN CENTRALE BANK VAN ARUBA CALCO INDJAN - MELONGENA MELONGENA (Translation: 10 Florin Central Bank of Aruba Calco Indian Conch - Melongena Melongena) |
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Aruba separated from the Netherlands Antilles on 1 January 1986, acquiring its own currency and central bank as part of that arrangement. The florin was introduced immediately, and this 1990 issue represents the early years of an institution still establishing its procedures and visual identity. Enschedé, printing Dutch colonial and Caribbean currency since the nineteenth century, was the natural choice — Aruba had neither the infrastructure nor the volume to justify any other arrangement.
Evelino Fingal's design credit is relatively rare in Caribbean banknote production of this period, where local designers were seldom commissioned for primary design work.