100 Guilders World Cup, Winner Brazil, .500 Silver

Suriname's entry into World Cup commemorative coinage was hardly inevitable — the country had no meaningful footballing pedigree, and Brazil's 1994 victory in Pasadena was the hook that justified the issue entirely. The .500 fineness is notably low for a silver commemorative of this period, when most sovereign mints were striking at .925 or .999, and points to a cost-driven decision by the Centrale Bank rather than any numismatic ambition.

KM#44a designates this as a variant within the type, implying at least one parallel issue — likely differing in composition or finish.