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25 Gulden
| Issuer | Centrale Bank van Suriname |
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| Year | 1963 |
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| Reference(s) | P#122 |
| Obverse description | Green intaglio on multicolor guilloche underprint. At right, a finely engraved vignette of a native Surinamese woman in three-quarter portrait, a flaming torch rising above her head and a cornucopia of tropical fruit beside her. The denomination "VIJF EN TWINTIG GULDEN" is printed in large letters at centre, flanked by numeral "25" at lower left and right, with an elaborate radiating guilloche rosette in red and green at the lower centre. The watermark window is positioned at left, with the date "1 SEPTEMBER 1963" and a signature above "PRESIDENT" along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 JUSTITIA - PIETAS - FIDES 25 SURINAAMS WETBOEK VAN STRAFRECHT (Translation: 25 Justice - Piety - Faith 25 Suriname's Criminal Code) |
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Suriname remained a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands until 1975, and in 1963 the Centrale Bank van Suriname was still operating in close institutional alignment with Dutch monetary arrangements — which explains the continued use of Enschedé in Haarlem, the prestige security printer responsible for Dutch guilder notes of the same period. C.A. Mechelse's involvement places this within a small circle of designers working across both metropolitan and overseas Dutch currency commissions.
Pick 122 is not a common note in any grade. The 1963 series had a relatively short active life before later issues superseded it, and Suriname's tropical climate was hard on cotton-paper currency in active circulation.