200 Som

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.