Product Description
SCWPM.#46a - TBB.#B140a - Date: 12-12-2003
Grade: UNC - Signature: 18 - Prefix: AV
Description: Colour: Brown and green. Front: English and Kiswahili text; lion; elephant as registration device; first president, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta; Mount Kenya; coat of arms. - Back: Kiswahilly text, Woman and two men picking cotton. - overprint - Windowed security thread with demetalized CBK 200. - Watermark: Lion head. - Printer: (TDLR). - Size: 142 x 75 mm. - Material: Paper.
General information: This commemorative note is similar to the 200-shilling notes which followed, but it has a thinner security thread, no electrotype watermark, and an overprint of the coat of arms and COMMEMORATING 40 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE 1963 - 2003 over the watermark area on front, and KUADHIMISHA MIAKA ARUBAINI YA UHURU 1963 - 2003 on back. The date on the note is Kenya’s Independence Day - Source: The Banknotebook.