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100 Florin
| Issuer | Centrale Bank van Aruba |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Value | 100 Florin |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green and multicolour note centred on a vignette of the Dori frog (Pleurodema brachyops, the Colombian four-eyed frog), a species native to the ABC Islands. The denomination "100 FLORIN" appears in the upper left and lower right corners, framed by guilloche underprint patterns. The inscription "WETTIG BETAALMIDDEL" (Legal Tender) and "CENTRALE BANK VAN ARUBA" are present, along with the scientific name "DORI - PLEURODEMA BRACHYOPS". |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Aruba's separation from the Netherlands Antilles in 1986 as a separate Status Aparte territory required building financial infrastructure essentially from scratch. The Centrale Bank van Aruba was established that same year, and this 100 Florin note belongs to the first generation of issues that gave the new entity a distinct monetary identity separate from Curaçao-dominated Antillean notes.
Evelino Fingal's design work for this series was notably local in character — unusual for a small Caribbean issuer that might otherwise have defaulted entirely to Enschedé's stock aesthetic. Enschedé's Haarlem facility had printed Netherlands Antilles notes for decades, so the relationship was already well-established when Aruba came to commission its own currency.