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200 Som
| Issuer | National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Currency | Som (1993-date) |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Kyrgyz poet and playwright Alıqul Osmonov (1915–1950) to the right, with his name and dates inscribed below the vignette. The centre carries an elaborate multicolour guilloche rosette over a fine-line underprint in orange and gold tones, with a dark intaglio denomination numeral '200' in a diamond-shaped security stamp at upper left. A vertical serial number appears along the right margin within an ornamental side panel. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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The 2004 reissue of this denomination followed Kyrgyzstan's gradual post-independence effort to stabilize and refine its national currency, which had only been introduced in 1993 after the som replaced the Soviet ruble. Giesecke & Devrient, the Munich printer responsible for this note, has handled Kyrgyz banknote production across multiple series — a relationship that has given the country's currency a consistent technical baseline even as individual designs evolved.
The security specification here is modest by the standards of the period. A basic embedded thread and watermark without the more sophisticated features G&D was producing for other clients at the same time.