1000 Shillings 2 Euro cent Netherlands

Issued under a Ugandan license but clearly aimed at European collectors anticipating the 2002 euro cash changeover, this piece belongs to a wave of novelty issues from small-denomination African minting programs that attached genuine or replica euro-cent planchets to base-metal host coins. The embedded piece references the Dutch 2 euro cent — the Netherlands being one of the original twelve eurozone adopters — years before those coins entered circulation.

Bank of Uganda KM#250 issues from this period were produced in limited runs for the numismatic market, not Kampala cash registers.