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2000 Gulden
| Issuer | Centrale Bank van Suriname |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Reference(s) | P#142 |
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| Reverse lettering | TWEE DUIZEND Gulden THOMAS DE LA RUE AND COMPANY LIMITED NADRUK VERBODEN SURINAAMS WETBOEK VAN STRAFRECHT - ARTIKEL 260 (Translation: Two Thousand Gulden Thomas de La Rue and Company Limited Reproduction Prohibited Suriname's Criminal Code - Article 260) |
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| Protection description | Toucan watermark |
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By 1995, Suriname was already in the grip of severe hyperinflation — the guilder had been losing value at a catastrophic rate since the early 1990s, partly driven by government deficit spending following the collapse of Dutch development aid after the 1982 December murders. A 2,000-guilder note would have seemed extraordinary a decade earlier; by mid-decade it was grocery money.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement here is routine for the Caribbean region, but the note's useful circulation life was short. Within a few years, denomination creep made it functionally obsolete, and Suriname eventually replaced the entire guilder with the Surinamese dollar in 2004 at a rate of 1,000 to 1.