Catalog
100 Shillings
| Issuer | Bank of Uganda |
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| Year | 1973 |
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| Currency | Shilling (1966-1987) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of President Idi Amin in military uniform positioned at left, facing right, with the national arms vignette at lower right. Guilloche underprint patterns frame the design, with the bank title and denomination inscriptions in both English and Swahili. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK OF UGANDA ONE HUNDRED SHILLINGS SHILINGI MIA MOJA 100 (Translation: One hundred shillings) |
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Uganda's 1973 issues came during the brutal early years of Idi Amin's rule, following the 1971 coup that ousted Milton Obote. The currency retained broadly similar designs from the pre-Amin period — there was no immediate visual break, partly a matter of economics and partly because De La Rue contracts are not renegotiated overnight.
Thomas De La Rue had been the principal printer for Uganda since independence in 1962, and the P#9 continues that relationship without interruption. The watermark is the primary security device — a modest specification for a 100-shilling denomination, which was a meaningful sum in Uganda at the time.