Catalog
200 Somoni
| Issuer | National Bank of Tajikistan |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Value | 200 Somoni |
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| Obverse description | At left centre, a vignette portrait of Nusratullo Maxsum (Nusratullo Lutfullayev, 1881–1937), Tajik Soviet statesman and recipient of the Order of the Red Banner, set against a multicolour guilloche underprint. The denomination and issuing authority are rendered in Tajik Cyrillic script across the face of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | NATIONAL BANK OF TAJIKISTAN TWO HUNDRED SOMONI БАРОИ ҚАЛБАКӢ СОХТАНИ БИЛЕТҲОИ БОНКИ МИЛЛИИ ТОҶИКИСТОН МУВОФИҚИ ҚОНУН ҶАЗО ДОДА МЕШАВАД (Translation: Counterfeit banknotes of the National Bank of Tajikistan shall be punished in accordance with the law) |
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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.