Catalog
200 Cedis
| Issuer | Bank of Ghana |
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| Year | 2019-2022 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Forward-facing portrait vignettes of Ghana's six founding leaders — Kwame Nkrumah, Ebenezer Ako-Adjei, Edward Akufo-Addo, Joseph Boakye Danquah, Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey, and William Ofori Atta — are arranged at right against a multicolour guilloche underprint. The Independence Arch occupies the centre field, flanked by the national arms at lower centre and a black star motif to the left. Denomination and legal tender inscriptions are rendered in intaglio. |
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| Reverse description | A vignette of Jubilee House, the official seat of Ghana's presidency, occupies the centre-left field against a pale multicolour guilloche background incorporating a large latent star pattern. The bold intaglio numeral «200» with «GH¢» prefix appears at lower left, accompanied by a security device at lower right. «BANK OF GHANA» is inscribed in bold lettering at bottom right. |
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The 200 Cedis denomination was introduced as part of Ghana's broader effort to accommodate inflation that had eroded the purchasing power of smaller notes into practical irrelevance for daily transactions. Thomas De La Rue has handled the majority of Ghana's note production since independence, and this series continues that relationship — the security package here is mid-tier for a De La Rue product of this period, reflecting the note's position in a denomination range where counterfeiting pressure is real but not at the level demanding the most expensive interventions.
Cotton substrate on Ghanaian notes has historically been prone to soiling in the humid coastal regions; heavily circulated examples from Accra tend to degrade faster than those from drier northern areas.