200 Som

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.