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25 000 Gulden
| Issuer | Centrale Bank van Suriname |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Currency | Guilder (1826-2003) |
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| Obverse lettering | CENTRALE BANK VAN SURINAME 1 JANUARY 2020 Pulsatrix perspicillata 25000 (Translation: Central Bank of Suriname January 1st, 2020 Pulsatrix perspicillata 25000) |
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| Reverse lettering | DE LA RUE CENTRALE BANK VAN SURINAME 25000 VIJF EN TWINTIG DUIZEND GULDEN Hymenocallis caribaea NADRUK VERBODEN : SURINAAMS WETBOEK VAN STRAFRECHT ARTIKEL 260 (Translation: De La Rue Central Bank of Suriname Twenty Five Thousand Gulden Hymenocallis caribaea Counterfeiting Forbidden: Suriname Criminal Law, Article 260) |
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Suriname's shift to high-denomination notes in the late 1990s was driven by chronic inflation that had eroded the gulden's purchasing power to near-absurdity — by 2000, 25,000 gulden was a routine transactional amount rather than a large sum. The currency was replaced entirely in January 2004 when the Surinamese dollar was introduced at a conversion rate of 1,000 gulden to 1 dollar, rendering the entire gulden series obsolete within four years of this note's issue.
Thomas De La Rue's production for Suriname during this period used comparatively minimal security — watermark and thread only, without the optically variable features that had become common elsewhere by 2000.