Catalog
5 Dollars
| Issuer | Centrale Bank van Suriname |
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| Year | 2004-2009 |
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| Size | 140 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | Rose and brown tones over a multicolor guilloche underprint. The central vignette presents the Centrale Bank van Suriname building in Paramaribo, flanked by a vignette of the water lily Nymphaea missouri. The national Coat of Arms appears at the lower left, with the denomination rendered twice in intaglio lettering. |
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| Reverse lettering | CENTRALE BANK VAN SURINAME Cocos nucifera Gran-Rio Sula VIJF DOLLAR NADRUK VERBODEN: SURINAAMS WETBOEK VAN STRAFRECHT ARTIKEL 260 (Translation: Central Bank of Suriname Cocos nucifera Gran-Rio Sula Five Dollars Counterfeiting Forbidden: Suriname Criminal Law, Article 260) |
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Suriname decimalized its currency on 1 January 2004, replacing the Surinamese guilder at a rate of 1,000 to 1 — the new dollar was introduced specifically to eliminate the zeros that had accumulated through decades of inflation. This note belongs to that inaugural dollar series, printed by the Canadian Bank Note Company in Ottawa, which has handled Surinamese security printing through multiple currency regimes.
The series ran through 2009 before being superseded by updated issues. No significant printing errors or major varieties are documented for P#157.