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200 Shilingi
| Issuer | Benki Kuu ya Tanzania (Bank of Tanzania) |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Currency | Shilling (1966-date) |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
| Protection description | Giraffe head watermark visible when held to light |
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Tanzania's 1992 200 Shilingi was introduced as the shilling recovered from the severe inflation that had eroded purchasing power through the 1980s, a period when structural adjustment pressures from the IMF forced Tanzania to abandon its socialist Ujamaa pricing controls. The denomination itself reflected how far the currency had slipped — a 200 shilling note would have been an absurd sum in the early independence years.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement was uninterrupted across multiple Tanzanian series, giving the notes a consistent intaglio quality. The watermark remains the sole listed security feature, modest even by early-1990s standards for a denomination of this value.