Currency - Suriname - 25 Gulden - Year 1988

Item code: 127/SR-1

Year	1988
Obverse	Anton de Kom (1898-1945). Part of the Monument of the Revolution in Paramaribo (Military Coup of the 25th of February 1980). Row of houses and famous buildings in Paramaribo including the historical Ministry of Finance of Paramaribo, with white clock tower and the Saint Peter and Paul Cathedral.
Reverse	Toucan bird. Speaker in front of small crowd.
Watermark	Toucan's head
Size	150 x 73 mm
Signature	Henk Otmar Goedschalk (President)

Obverse Description:

Anton de Kom

Cornelis Gerhard Anton de Kom (22 February 1898 – 24 April 1945) was a Surinamese resistance fighter and anti-colonialist author. De Kom finished primary and secondary school and obtained a diploma in bookkeeping. 

De Kom and his family left for Suriname on 20 December 1932 and arrived on 4 January 1933. From that moment on he was closely watched by the colonial authorities. He started a consultancy in his parents' house. On 1 February he was arrested while en route to the governor's office with a large group of followers.

After the German invasion in 1940, De Kom joined the Dutch resistance, especially the communist party in The Hague. He wrote articles for the underground paper De Vonk of the communist party, mainly about the terror of fascist groups in the streets of The Hague (much of their terror was directed against Jews). On 7 August 1944, he was arrested. He was imprisoned at the Oranje Hotel in Scheveningen, and transferred to Camp Vught, a Dutch concentration camp. In early September 1944, he was sent to Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen, where he was forced to work for the Heinkel aircraft factory. De Kom died on 24 April 1945 of tuberculosis in Camp Sandbostel near Bremervörde (between Bremen and Hamburg), which was a satellite camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp. He was buried in a mass grave. In 1960, his remains were found and brought to the Netherlands. There he was buried at the Cemetery of Honours in Loenen. 

Monument to Anton de Kom, Amsterdam

De Kom was married to a Dutch woman, Petronella Borsboom. They had four children. Their son, Cees de Kom, lives in Suriname. The University of Suriname was renamed The Anton de Kom University of Suriname in honor of De Kom. Anton de Kom was listed in De Grootste Nederlander (The Greatest Dutchman/Dutchwoman) as #102 out of 202 people. In Amsterdam Zuidoost a square is named after him, the Anton de Komplein. It features a sculpture of Anton de Kom as a monument to his life and works, sculpted by Jikke van Loon.

Reverse Description: 

Toucan

The Toucan is a South American bird in the family Ramphastidae. This social bird lives in small flocks in lowland rainforests in many countries, such as Costa Rica. It is a poor flyer, and flies short distances between trees. Toucans roost in holes in trees. They mostly eat fruit, but sometimes they also eat insects and small lizards. 

Toucans are known for their huge beaks, which can grow larger than their bodies. They use their beaks for reaching over and plucking fruit from branches of trees. The bright colors on the beak may help the toucans to recognize each other, and to scare off other birds. 

ടൂക്കൻ

പിസിഫോമിസ് (Piciformes) പക്ഷിഗോത്രത്തിലെ റാംഫാസ്റ്റിഡേ (Ramphastidae) കുടുംബത്തിൽപ്പെട്ട ഒരിനം പക്ഷിയാണ് ടൂക്കൻ. അഞ്ചു ജീനസ്സുകളിലായി മുപ്പത്തിയേഴോളം സ്പീഷീസ് ടൂക്കൻ പക്ഷികളുണ്ട്. ഉഷ്ണമേഖലാ പ്രദേശങ്ങളിൽ ധാരാളമായി കാണപ്പെടുന്ന വൃക്ഷവാസിയായ പക്ഷിയാണിത്. തെക്കൻ മെക്സിക്കോ മുതൽ വടക്കൻ ആർജന്റീന വരെ ഇവ കാണപ്പെടുന്നു. വലിയ ഇനങ്ങൾ മഴക്കാടുകളുടെ താഴ്ന്ന പ്രദേശങ്ങളിലും ചെറിയ ഇനങ്ങൾ 3300 മീ. വരെ ഉയരമുള്ള വനങ്ങളിലും കണ്ടുവരുന്നു.

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