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100 Guilders 700th Anniversary Helvetic Confederation / 125th Anniversary Red Cross
| Issuer | Centrale Bank van Suriname |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | The central field displays the coat of arms of Suriname, depicting two indigenous supporters flanking a quartered shield bearing a sailing ship, a palm tree, a diamond, and a five-pointed star, all above a ribbon with the motto JUSTITIE PIETAS FIDES. The shield and supporters are rendered in high relief against a mirror-like proof field. Encircling the arms is a broad wreath of tropical foliage, elegantly rendered in fine detail. The legend SURINAME appears in large incuse letters along the lower portion of the field, within the wreath. |
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| Reverse lettering | 700th Anniversary of the Helvetic Confederation 100 GUILDERS 999 ・125th Anniversary of the "Red Cross"・ |
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This piece belongs to a wave of Surinamese commemorative silver issued in the early 1990s, a period when the Centrale Bank was aggressively pursuing foreign collector markets to generate hard currency — the domestic guilder was under severe pressure following years of military rule and the economic disruption that trailed the 1980 Bouterse coup. Pairing two entirely unrelated anniversaries on a single coin was a deliberate commercial calculation, not a curatorial one.
The Red Cross anniversary traces to the 1864 Geneva Convention, which Henri Dunant pushed through largely on the strength of his 1862 account of the Battle of Solferino.