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100 Shillings Monkey, copper-nickel
| Issuer | Bank of Uganda |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Value | 100 Shillings |
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| Obverse description | The obverse displays the arms of Uganda in the central field, depicting a shield supported by a Uganda kob to the left and a grey crowned crane to the right, with a sun in the upper portion of the shield and a wavy band below. The shield rests upon a representation of the River Nile, and a scroll at the base bears the national motto FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY. The circular legend BANK OF UGANDA arcs along the upper periphery within a beaded border, while the denomination 100 SHILLINGS is inscribed along the lower periphery. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Uganda's wildlife coinage of the early 2000s was issued partly in response to sustained demand from the thematic collector market, which by that point had become a significant revenue stream for smaller central banks. The Bank of Uganda leaned into this deliberately, producing a series of fauna-themed circulating commemoratives that blurred the line between collector pieces and legal tender.
KM#201 is copper-nickel rather than the bimetallic or silver formats favored for purely numismatic issues — a detail that suggests genuine circulating intent, though most examples encountered today show little evidence of it.