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1000 Shillings 1 Euro Belgium
| Issuer | Bank of Uganda |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | The obverse displays the coat of arms of Uganda in the central field, featuring a quartered shield supported by a Ugandan kob (antelope) to the left and a grey crowned crane to the right, with a drum and the national motto scroll reading FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY at the base. Crossed spears appear behind the shield. The legend BANK OF UGANDA arcs along the upper periphery, flanked by the date 19 99 divided across the left and right fields. The denomination 1000 SHILLINGS is inscribed along the lower periphery, with the numeral partially visible at the lower left. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued in 1999 as a novelty piece capitalizing on the launch of the euro, this coin was produced well outside the eurozone — Uganda had no political or monetary relationship with the currency it was commemorating. The embedded paper appliqué reproduces a euro banknote design element, a format popular among secondary-market issuers in the late 1990s targeting European collectors anxious about the transition away from legacy currencies.
Bank of Uganda issued several such pieces during this period through licensing arrangements with foreign minting agents, not through any domestic monetary policy decision.