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2 1/2 Gulden Muntbiljet
| Issuer | Suriname |
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| Year | 1961-1967 |
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| Value | 21/2 Guilders (21/2 Gulden) (2.50 SRG) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red-brown on light paper, the obverse carries a vignette at left of a woman in traditional Surinamese dress facing right, rendered in fine intaglio line work. The denomination and issuing authority are stated in Dutch across the central and upper portions of the note, with the registration date and ministerial title below. A guilloche underprint provides background security to the design field. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in red-brown and brown, the reverse is dominated by an ornamental guilloche pattern filling the central design field, with the denomination numerals and legal tender inscription arranged in the surrounding panels. An article from the Surinamese Wetboek van Strafrecht (Penal Code), Article 260, warning against forgery and misuse of banknotes, is printed in small text. The serial number, consisting of two prefix letters followed by six digits, appears on the reverse. |
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The muntbiljet — literally "coin note" — was a Dutch monetary instrument used when metal coinage was in short supply or impractical to distribute. Suriname's use of the format well into the 1960s reflects the administrative conservatism of a territory still tightly bound to Dutch fiscal practice, even as full independence remained fifteen years away.
Enschedé's Haarlem facility had printed Dutch colonial currency for generations by this point, and the relationship was essentially uninterrupted from the pre-war Netherlands Indies issues through to Surinamese autonomy. P#117 runs from 1961 to 1967 — a span that crosses the 1963 Statute revision that redefined Suriname's relationship with the Kingdom of the Netherlands.