Catalog
5 Gulden
| Issuer | Centrale Bank van Suriname |
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| Year | 1957 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CENTRALE BANK VAN SURINAME VIJF GULDEN 5 2 JANUARI 1957 C.A. MECHEL SE. DEL. JOH. ENSCHEDE EN ZONEN IMP (Translation: Central Bank of Suriname Five Gulden 5 January 2, 1957 C.A. Mechel Se. Del. Joh. Enschedé and Sons Printers) |
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| Protection description | Parrot's head |
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Suriname was still a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1957, and the Centrale Bank van Suriname had only been established four years earlier, in 1957 — the bank's inaugural series. Enschedé, the long-established Haarlem security printer with centuries of experience producing Dutch state documents, was the natural choice for a newly independent monetary authority working within the Dutch institutional orbit.
C.A. Mechel's design credit is relatively rare to encounter explicitly named on Caribbean colonial-era transitional issues, making the attribution here worth noting for researchers tracing Enschedé's mid-century design staff.