TSh200 — Two Hundred Shillings
The artwork
Front: Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Tanzania's second president, engraved at right against a fan of orange and ochre kanga-pattern panels. Above centre sits the national arms with the shield-bearers and the motto Uhuru na Umoja. Left, in pale outline, the Uhuru torch rising from grasses. All text in Swahili: Benki Kuu ya Tanzania, and the promise fedha halali kwa malipo ya shilingi mia mbili.
Back: Two fishermen wade ashore carrying a large fish slung between them, ngalawa and dhows with raised sails drawn up on the beach behind. The map of mainland Tanzania fills the upper ground as a dotted screen. A clove sprig in green flowers at the left; the Uhuru torch, printed in orange, stands at the right. Below, SHILINGI MIA MBILI.
In circulation
The Mwinyi 200 shilingi appeared in the early 1990s and stayed in use through the decade. A bimetallic 200 shilingi coin took over the denomination from 1998, and the redesigned banknote family of 2003 dropped the value from paper altogether, leaving this note out of circulation.
Details
- IssuerBenki Kuu ya Tanzania (Bank of Tanzania)
- CurrencyShilling (TSh)
- DenominationTwo Hundred Shillings
- Collectedon the Tanzania journey, 1992
- Series200 shilingi, Mwinyi portrait issue, undated
- SignatureTwo: Waziri wa Fedha (Minister of Finance) and Gavana (Governor), the latter G. Rutihinda
- WatermarkGiraffe head, in the plain panel at left