Catalog
5 Florin
| Issuer | Banco Central di Aruba |
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| Year | 1986 |
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| Currency | Florin (1986-date) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on an uncoloured ground, the obverse carries the Aruban flag as a vignette at left within an octagonal guilloche frame, surmounted by a numeral 5 in the lower left corner. A panoramic intaglio vignette at centre depicts the coastal hotel district of Aruba with mountains and sea in the background. At right, a geometric guilloche medallion encloses the large numeral 5, framed by a decorative border of repeating meander pattern. Two manuscript signature lines appear between the central vignette and the denomination legend, captioned DE DIRECTEUR and DE PRESIDENT. |
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Aruba separated from the Netherlands Antilles on 1 January 1986 under a "Status Aparte" arrangement — a political compromise that stopped short of full independence but gave the island its own government, its own currency, and its own central bank. This note was among the first issues of that new institution, printed by Enschedé in Haarlem, the same firm that had been producing Dutch guilder notes for generations. The choice was deliberate: continuity of quality and trust at a moment when a brand-new currency needed both.
Pick #1 is the lowest-numbered entry in the entire Aruban catalog. That alone makes it a natural target for type collectors.