100 Cents

The Centrale Bank van Suriname introduced this denomination following the country's 1975 independence from the Netherlands, replacing the guilder coinage that had circulated under Dutch colonial administration. Suriname's monetary history across this period was turbulent — the 1980 military coup led by Dési Bouterse destabilized the economy, and by the early 1990s inflation had rendered lower denominations effectively worthless, making the 100-cent piece the practical floor of everyday transactions.

The series ran through the 2004 monetary reform, when Suriname redenominated at 1,000:1, replacing the guilder with the Surinamese dollar. Coins dated after that year were issued in the new dollar system, making the final guilder-era strikes of this type the last of a currency that had outlasted colonial rule by nearly three decades.