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5 Florin
| Issuer | Centrale Bank van Aruba |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Purple and multicolour note with a vignette of the Tortuga Blanco (White Turtle, Chelonia mydas) positioned at centre right, rendered against a fine guilloche underprint. The denomination numeral '5' appears at left and right, with the issuer name and value inscribed in Dutch across the face. |
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| Reverse description | Purple and multicolour reverse dominated by an abstract geometric composition of overlapping angular forms rendered in varying tones of purple, violet, and pink, interspersed with stylised pre-Columbian Aruban motifs including scrollwork and zoomorphic patterns. The denomination numeral '5' is printed in large format at both left and right margins, with the place and date of issue, printer's imprint, and copyright notice arranged along the lower portion. |
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Aruba separated from the Netherlands Antilles on 1 January 1986 under a special autonomous status arrangement — "Status Aparte" — and the Centrale Bank van Aruba was established that same year to issue a distinct currency, the Aruban florin. This 1990 P#6 belongs to the bank's founding series, designed by local artist Evelino Fingal, whose commission marked a deliberate effort to produce notes with a distinctly Aruban visual identity rather than recycled Netherlands Antilles imagery.
Enschedé in Haarlem has printed Dutch colonial and Caribbean currency for centuries, and their production quality here is consistent with the house standard. The watermark is the sole security feature on this denomination.