Catalog
100 Gulden
| Issuer | De Surinaamsche Bank |
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| Year | 1856-1911 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | De Surinaamsche Bank te Paramaribo betaald aan Tonder in gangbare Specie HONDERD GULDEN PARAMARIBO, 1 DECEMBER 1911 (Translation: The Suriname Bank in Paramaribo Pay to bearer in current specie One Hundred Gulden Paramaribo, December 1, 1911.) |
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| Protection description | "Surinaamsche Bank" text watermark, visible when held to light |
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De Surinaamsche Bank was established by royal decree in 1865, replacing earlier colonial monetary arrangements, and Enschedé in Haarlem supplied its notes throughout the institution's formative decades — a logical choice given the printer's long relationship with Dutch colonial currency production. The date range on this issue spans over half a century, which means surviving examples could represent almost any point in Suriname's late plantation economy through the early rubber and bauxite transition period.
Enschedé's watermark security on colonial issues of this period was generally a single-pass mill watermark incorporated during paper manufacture, not applied post-printing — a distinction that matters when assessing forgery risk on high-denomination notes circulating far from Amsterdam's oversight.