Talk:Surinamese dollar

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What does the Bank of Canada have to do with Suriname dollars?--Lucky13pjn 01:50, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)

The Bank of Canada prints money for some foreign nations. Presumably Suriname is one of them. Nik42 03:28, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

This currency was introduced with European Union EISO 4217, amendment 121, an inactment that also suppressed the former Russian rouble. - what the heck? European Union? Russian Rouble? What do either of those have to do with Suriname? It's not even in Europe. Nik42 03:28, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Oh! I understand it now. That act didn't "introduce" the currency, it simply established a currency code for the Suriname dollar and suppressed the currency code for the old Russian Rouble. Nik42 03:33, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

The article states: The old coins denominated in cents (i.e., 1/100 guilder) were declared to be worth their face value in the new cents, negating the necessity of producing new coins. Thus, for example, an old 50 cent coin, nominally worth half a guilder was now worth half a dollar.

Is this correct? It would seem to imply that the value of all coins was multiplied by a factor of ONE THOUSAND overnight, which I would think is unlikely. Izzycat 22:49, 13 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The statement of the wasn't too clear on this, so I looked at the FAQ (which is in Dutch, http://www.cbvs.sr/dutch/dollar-faq.htm). It looks like they make a distinction between "Currency notes" and "Banknotes". They give an example in FAQ entry 12, I'll try and translate it:

Suppose you have 1 banknote of 1000 guilders and 2 currency notes of 1 guilder.

A bread costs 200 guilders; so you can buy 5 breads with the 1000 guilders; you can buy nothing with the 2 guilders.

After the 1st of January 2004 we'll have the following situation:

A bread then costs 200 guilders : 1000 = 20 (dollar)cents

You have 1 banknote of 1000 guilders + 2 Suriname Dollars = 3 Suriname Dollars.

For these 3 Suriname dollars you can buy 300 : 20 = 15 breads.

Pretty weird indeed. --Raboof 09:50, 18 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Exhange rate[edit]

The exchange rate seems to no longer be fixed and is moving much more normally, someone familiar with the changes should probably update? 196.14.169.11 (talk) 07:27, 23 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]