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100 Shillings Rooster, steel
| Issuer | Bank of Uganda |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Composition | Steel |
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| Reverse description | A finely detailed profile portrait of a rooster (Gallus domesticus) faces right within a raised inner circle, its comb, wattle, and feathered neck rendered with close engraved line work. The legend '· BANK OF UGANDA ·' arcs along the upper periphery outside the inner circle, while the date '2004' and the inscription 'ROOSTER' appear along the lower portion of the inner circle, all within a beaded outer border. |
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| Reverse lettering | · BANK OF UGANDA · 2004 ROOSTER |
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Uganda's shilling coinage was substantially restructured in the early 2000s as the central bank moved away from more expensive alloy compositions in response to persistent metal arbitrage problems — older coins were being melted for their intrinsic value. The steel-core shift was a direct fiscal countermeasure, not an aesthetic one.
KM#142 is the steel successor to earlier cupro-nickel 100-shilling types and represents the denomination's stabilized post-reform incarnation during a period when Uganda's inflation, though historically catastrophic in the 1980s, had finally been brought under reasonable IMF-monitored control by the mid-2000s.