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25 Gulden

Issuer Centrale Bank van Suriname
Year 1957
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Shape Rectangular
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Reverse description The colonial coat of arms of Suriname occupies the central vignette, supported by two indigenous figures flanking a shield charged with a sailing vessel, with a ribbon below bearing the national motto. A serial number of one letter and six digits appears alongside a text block at bottom centre citing Article 260 of the Surinamese Criminal Code concerning the forgery and misuse of banknotes.
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Suriname's 1957 series was among the first issued under the Centrale Bank van Suriname following its establishment in 1956 — the bank had only just assumed the note-issuing function previously held by the Surinaamsche Bank. Enschedé in Haarlem had been producing Netherlands Antilles and Surinamese currency for years and carried that relationship forward into the new institutional arrangement without interruption.

C.A. Mechel's involvement as designer places this note within a small body of documented Enschedé commissions from the period. The 25 Gulden was the highest denomination in the initial CBS series, which made it the least commonly encountered in everyday transaction use.

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