Catalog
200 Namibia Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Namibia |
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| Year | 2012-2022 |
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| Value | 200 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Captain Hendrik Witbooi in centre-left, wearing his characteristic wide-brimmed hat, with his name inscribed below in a caption. A vignette of the Parliament building in Windhoek occupies the centre-right against a golden guilloche underprint, accompanied by a colour-shifting holographic security patch in green. The denomination '200' appears in large numerals at lower right alongside the 'N$' currency symbol, with 'TWO HUNDRED NAMIBIA DOLLARS' lettered vertically at left. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of three Roan Antelopes rendered in intaglio, standing on open grassland, with the species name 'ROAN ANTELOPE' inscribed below the group. The Namibian state coat of arms appears at top centre above the animals, flanked by traditional geometric pattern underprints in dark tones along the upper border. 'BANK OF NAMIBIA' and the date appear at the lower centre, with the denomination '200' and 'N$' at lower right, and a windowed security thread visible at right. |
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The 200 Dollar denomination was introduced as part of Namibia's third series, which the Bank of Namibia released to mark the country's twentieth anniversary of independence — a deliberate statement about an economy confident enough to circulate a high-value note. Oberthur Fiduciaire, a longtime supplier to former French colonial territories and their successors, handled production, though Namibia has no historical connection to France; the contract reflects the competitive market for security printing in southern Africa rather than any political alignment.
P#15 spans a full decade of issue dates, meaning signature combinations vary across the run — worth checking before cataloging individual specimens.