Evidence coverage: 2004–2004. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
No distinct successor currency is established in the loaded view.
Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.
Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.
Suriname’s 1 January 2004 reform exchanged 1,000 guilders for one dollar, except coins and muntbiljetten retaining nominal values.
C200S.B.2003 no.88 changes the statutory unit to the Surinamese dollar, SRD, divided into 100 cents, from 1 January 2004. S.B.2003 no.89 converts covered guilder amounts to dollars at 1,000 guilders per dollar from 1 January 2004 while preserving other contractual terms.
C444, C445The central bank states that old banknotes and government notes remained valid through 31 May 2004; it describes later banknote exchange for 30 years but no later government-note exchange.
C450Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Suriname’s 1 January 2004 reform exchanged 1,000 guilders for one dollar, except coins and muntbiljetten retaining nominal values.
Reform and exceptions
Coins and muntbiljetten retained nominal values; ordinary 1000:1 conversion is not universal across instruments.
S.B.2003 no.88 changes the statutory unit to the Surinamese dollar, SRD, divided into 100 cents, from 1 January 2004.
articles I–II
Changes the statutory unit and effective date; no universal cash-exchange rule is inferred.
S.B.2003 no.89 converts covered guilder amounts to dollars at 1,000 guilders per dollar from 1 January 2004 while preserving other contractual terms.
articles 1–4 and 13
Explanatory memorandum not audited in full.
Historical rules, not a claim of present redemption availability.
Article 5 excepts qualifying government coins and one-/two-and-a-half-guilder government notes: their corresponding cent/dollar face values are retained; commemorative coins are excluded.
article 5
Explanatory memorandum not audited in full.
Historical rules, not a claim of present redemption availability.
Article 6 prescribes cent rounding and special aggregation of banknotes ending in five; the aggregation rule does not govern individual-note exchange.
article 6(1)–(3)
Explanatory memorandum not audited in full.
Historical rules, not a claim of present redemption availability.
Old central-bank notes continue as tender until the recall period ends, valued at one-thousandth of their guilder face values.
article 7
Explanatory memorandum not audited in full.
Historical rules, not a claim of present redemption availability.
The law qualifies its application to rights and obligations governed by foreign law; it is not a universal rewrite of every contract worldwide.
article 12
Explanatory memorandum not audited in full.
Historical rules, not a claim of present redemption availability.
The central bank states that old banknotes and government notes remained valid through 31 May 2004; it describes later banknote exchange for 30 years but no later government-note exchange.
De Surinaamse Dollar, withdrawal/exchange paragraphs; historical policy, not current availability
Coins and muntbiljetten retained nominal values; ordinary 1000:1 conversion is not universal across instruments.