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100 000 Gulden 25th Anniversary of Independence

Issuer Centrale Bank van Suriname
Year 2000
Type Non-circulating coin
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Obverse description The national coat of arms of Suriname occupies the central field, depicting a quartered shield supported by two indigenous figures standing at either side, each holding a spear. The shield displays a ship at sea and a palm tree on the respective quarters, with a five-pointed star at the center. The motto scroll beneath the supporters bears the legend JUSTITIA PIETAS FIDES. The entire design is encircled by an ornate wreath of leafy branches, and the country name SURINAME is inscribed in the lower portion of the field within the wreath.
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Obverse lettering SURINAME JUSTITIA PIETAS FIDES
(Translation: Justice Piety Faith)
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Suriname marked 25 years of independence from the Netherlands in 2000 under circumstances that were anything but celebratory — the country was still clawing back from a decade of military coups, a brief civil war in the interior, and hyperinflation that had rendered the Surinamese guilder nearly worthless by the mid-1990s. The central bank had been forced to issue emergency high-denomination banknotes in the hundreds of thousands; a commemorative gold coin denominated at 100,000 guilders was, in that light, less an extravagance than an accurate reflection of where the currency stood.

Within two years of this issue, the guilder was replaced entirely by the Surinamese dollar at a rate of 1,000 to 1.

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