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250 Guilders Foundation Save the Children
| Issuer | Centrale Bank van Suriname |
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| Year | 1991-1992 |
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| Value | 250 Guilders (250 Gulden) (250 SRG) |
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| Obverse description | Central shield of the Surinamese coat of arms, supported on either side by standing indigenous figures. The shield is encircled by an ornamental wreath, with the national motto legend inscribed below the shield. The overall design is rendered in a heraldic style with fine milled detail throughout the field. |
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| Reverse description | Three children seated and kneeling in the foreground are depicted gazing upward at a large spider web that dominates the upper field. Upon the web stands Anansi, the mythical trickster spider rendered in human form playing a stringed instrument. The denomination '250 G' appears in the upper right field, the date '1991' is inscribed at the lower left, and the legend 'STICHTING REDT DE KINDEREN' is divided along the left and right periphery. A small mintmaster's privy mark appears near the lower center. |
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Issued to support the Save the Children Fund, this piece was produced during one of the more turbulent stretches of Surinamese monetary history — the early 1990s saw the guilder under severe inflationary pressure following years of military rule under Dési Bouterse and the collapse of Dutch development aid after the 1982 December Murders. A commemorative gold issue in that environment was aimed squarely at the international collector market rather than domestic circulation.