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1000 Shillings 20 Euro cent Germany
| Issuer | Bank of Uganda |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Value | 1000 Shillings |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1999 |
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Issued by Uganda in 1999 as part of a wave of novelty legal-tender pieces aimed squarely at the collector market, this coin belongs to a category that numismatists argue about endlessly: is it a coin at all? The paper appliqué attachment — a reproduction of the German 20 Euro cent, a denomination that wouldn't officially exist until 2002 — makes the anachronism impossible to ignore. The Euro was still a ledger currency in 1999, coins not yet struck for circulation.
Uganda's Bank issued dozens of these composite pieces through the late 1990s, licensing foreign imagery with little apparent gatekeeping.