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200 Som
| Issuer | Kyrgyz Bank (Кыргыз Банкы) |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Value | 200 Som (200 KGS) |
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| Obverse description | An intaglio portrait of Kyrgyz poet and playwright Alıqul Osmonov (1915–1950) occupies the right field, set against a guilloche underprint in gold and brown tones with traditional Kyrgyz ornamental motifs at centre. The denomination '200' appears in large numerals at upper right and lower left, with the issuer's name in Cyrillic script along the top margin. A security overprint element bearing the numeral '200' is integrated into the design. |
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| Reverse description | The central field carries a panoramic vignette of Lake Issyk-Kul rendered in blue and brown tones, framed by guilloche patterning in the margins. A stanza of Osmonov's poetry dedicated to the lake is inscribed in Kyrgyz Cyrillic script above the landscape vignette. The denomination and issuer's name appear in the surrounding margins. |
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Kyrgyzstan's 200 Som denomination was introduced as the country worked to stabilize a currency that had only existed since 1993, when the som replaced the Soviet ruble at a time of severe inflation and economic dislocation following independence. The 2000 dated issue falls within a period of relative monetary consolidation, though the national banking system was still building the institutional credibility it had never needed under Soviet central planning.
Pick 16 is not a note that generates much specialist attention, which is occasionally an argument for it. Underappreciated issues from small post-Soviet republics in this period are quietly becoming harder to find in unfolded condition.