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200 Somoni
| Issuer | National Bank of Tajikistan |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Printer | Giesecke & Devrient, Leipzig |
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| Obverse lettering | БОНКИ МИЛЛИИ ТОҶИКИСТОН ДУСАД СОМОНӢ (Translation: National Bank of Tajikistan, Two Hundred Somonī) |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a vignette of the National Library of Tajikistan building in Dushanbe, rendered in fine intaglio line work against a multicolour guilloche underprint. The national flag of Tajikistan appears alongside the architectural vignette, with denomination and warning legends inscribed in both Tajik Cyrillic and Latin scripts. |
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Tajikistan's currency, the somoni, was introduced in 2000 to replace the Tajik ruble — itself a stopgap issued after the Soviet collapse — at a rate of 1 somoni to 1,000 rubles. The country had spent the intervening years recovering from a devastating civil war that ended in 1997, and the redenomination was as much a psychological break from that period as a technical monetary adjustment. The 200 somoni, a high-denomination note for a country with persistently modest per capita income, was intended partly to reduce the number of notes needed in larger transactions.
Giesecke & Devrient's Leipzig facility has handled Tajik printing since the series began.