Catalog
10,000 Shillings
| Issuer | Bank of Uganda |
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| Year | 2005-2009 |
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| Value | 10 000 Shillings (10 000 UGX) |
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| Obverse description | A vignette of traditional musical instruments occupies the left portion of the note, with the national arms of Uganda at upper centre and the Bank of Uganda arms at lower centre. The design is set against a multicolour guilloche underprint, with the denomination rendered in numerals and text in both English and Swahili. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Uganda's 10,000 shilling denomination was introduced in the 1990s as inflation eroded the practical ceiling of the existing note range. By 2005 the denomination was routine transactional currency rather than a high-value note — a telling indicator of how far the shilling had traveled since the monetary chaos of the Amin and Obote years.
The P#45 series is notable for its relatively sparse security specification. A watermark alone, at this face value, placed it behind the curve compared to contemporaneous East African issues from Kenya and Tanzania, which had adopted security threads and color-shifting inks considerably earlier.