Catalog
10 Shillings
| Issuer | Bank of Uganda |
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| Year | 1973 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | A right-facing portrait bust of Idi Amin in full military uniform occupies the left portion of the note, set against a guilloche underprint. The national arms vignette appears at lower right. Bilingual inscriptions in English and Swahili frame the design, with the denomination and issuer name rendered in intaglio. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK OF UGANDA TEN SHILLINGS SHILINGI KUMI LEGAL TENDER FOR TEN SHILLINGS 10 FOR BANK OF UGANDA FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY (Translation: Ten shillings) |
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Uganda's 1973 banknote series was issued roughly two years into Idi Amin's military government, which had seized power from Milton Obote in January 1971. The Bank of Uganda continued operating under the new regime, and Thomas De La Rue supplied notes essentially unchanged in format from the preceding Obote-era issues — a quiet continuity that suited a government still consolidating control and not yet ready to stamp its own iconography onto the currency.
De La Rue's watermark security on this series is relatively simple by the standards of the period. Later Ugandan issues would reflect the chaos of Amin's economic mismanagement; the 1973 shilling notes predate the worst of it.