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100 000 Gulden 25th Anniversary of Independence
| Issuer | Centrale Bank van Suriname |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#54, Schön#48 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a bold stylized numeral '25' with flowing ribbon-like elements dominating the central field, commemorating the 25th anniversary of Surinamese independence. Beneath the numeral, the legend ONAFHANKELIJK SURINAME is inscribed alongside a five-pointed star, with the anniversary dates 25 NOV. 1975 – 25 NOV. 2000 on a banner below. The denomination 100.000 G appears at the bottom of the central design. A circular peripheral legend reads STRIJD TEGEN ARMOEDE ARBEID VOOR DUURZAME ONTWIKKELING, separated by five-pointed stars, with a beaded border framing the entire design. |
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| Reverse lettering | ★ STRIJD TEGEN ARMOEDE ★ ARBEID VOOR DUURZAME ONTWIKKELING 25 JAAR ONAFHANKELIJK SURINAME 25 NOV. 1975 - 25 NOV. 2000 100.000 G (Translation: Fight Against Poverty, Labor for Sustainable Development 25 years Independent Suriname) |
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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.