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25 Florin
| Issuer | Centrale Bank van Aruba |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Reference(s) | P#8 |
| Obverse description | Brown and multicolour note centred on a detailed vignette of the Aruba rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus unicolor, locally known as the Cascabel), rendered in intaglio against a fine guilloche underprint. The denomination '25' appears at upper left and lower right, with the issuing authority legend along the upper border. The species name is inscribed beneath the serpent vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 FLORIN CENTRALE BANK VAN ARUBA CASCABEL - CROTALUS DURISSUS UNICOLOR (Translation: 25 Florin Central Bank of Aruba Cascabel - Crotalus Durissus Unicolor) |
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Aruba's central bank was established in 1986, the year the island achieved its separate Status Aparte within the Kingdom of the Netherlands — splitting off from the Netherlands Antilles in a political arrangement unique in the Caribbean. This 25 Florin note, issued four years into that experiment, was part of the first complete series Aruba produced as a self-governing entity.
Evelino Fingal, the Aruban artist who designed the series, was a local appointment — unusual for a region where banknote design had long been handled by metropolitan contractors. Enschedé's Haarlem presses have been printing Dutch colonial and post-colonial currency since the nineteenth century; their involvement here was a matter of continuity as much as capability.