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1000 Shillings 5 Euro cent Belgium
| Issuer | Bank of Uganda |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | BANK OF UGANDA 1999 FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY 1000 SHILLINGS |
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This piece belongs to a short-lived Ugandan novelty series that embedded or attached actual circulating European coins to collector strikes ahead of the euro's physical introduction in 2002. The attached 5 euro cent was struck at one of the eurozone mints in 1999 — the year the euro was introduced as an accounting currency — making these transitional pieces technically the earliest euro coinage most collectors in sub-Saharan Africa ever handled. The paper appliqué bonding method has proven fragile; intact examples with the euro cent still firmly seated are meaningfully less common than the raw host coin alone.