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200 Euros
| Issuer | European Central Bank |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | 200 © BCE ECB EZB EKT EKP 2002 200 EURO ΕΥΡΩ |
| Reverse description | Warm gold guilloche fills the field; a vignette of an Art Nouveau iron bridge spans the upper left area, with a map of Europe at centre-right. The denomination '200' appears at lower left and lower right, with the EURO/EYPO bilingual legend beneath the bridge vignette. |
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The 200 euro note was the least-circulated denomination at launch — too large for most everyday transactions, too small to justify the effort of forgery compared to the 500. That awkward middle position made it commercially marginal from the start. The Eurosystem initially produced it in relatively modest quantities, and many central banks ordered few or none for their national allocations.
The 2002 first series was printed by multiple national central bank printers across the eurozone, each applying its own serial prefix letter identifying the issuing NCB — a detail that matters for completeness collectors assembling full printer sets.