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200 Som
| Issuer | Kyrgyz Bank (Кыргыз Банкы) |
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| Year | 2000 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | КЫРГЫЗ БАНКЫ 200 ЭКИ ЖҮЗ СОМ (Translation: Bank of Kyrgyzstan, Two Hundred Som) |
| 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.