10 Florin

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.