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1000 Shillings 10 Euro cent Austria
| Issuer | Bank of Uganda |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Currency | New shilling (1987-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK OF UGANDA 1999 FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY 1000 SHILLINGS |
| Reverse description | The reverse features a stylised globe in the central field depicting a map of Europe, overlaid with two paper applique representations of the Austrian 10 Euro cent coin — one showing the obverse with the numeral 10 and the inscription EURO CENT, and the other showing the reverse featuring the Stephansdom cathedral with the inscription 10 EURO CENT and the date 2002. A ring of twelve five-pointed stars borders the lower portion of the field, referencing the European Union. The legend THE NEW EUROPEAN CURRENCY arcs along the upper periphery in Latin script. |
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This piece belongs to a curious series issued by Uganda in the late 1990s in which foreign coins — in this case a circulating Austrian 10 Euro cent struck before the euro's actual launch — were physically embedded into a Ugandan commemorative host coin via paper appliqué. The Austrian euro-series coins used in such issues were pre-production or early minting runs from 1999, the year the euro was established as an accounting currency, a full three years before euro coins entered everyday circulation in January 2002.
Uganda was not alone in producing these hybrid novelties; several African nations issued similar pieces during this period, typically as collector items with no genuine monetary function.