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1000 Shillings Albert Einstein
| 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 FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY 1999 1000 SHILLINGS |
| Reverse description | A forward-facing draped bust of the physicist Albert Einstein dominates the central field, rendered in high relief with characteristic disheveled hair and mustache. A facsimile signature reading Albert Einstein appears in script to the lower left of the portrait. The legend MILLENNIUM arcs along the upper periphery within a beaded inner border, and the commemorative year 2000 is inscribed in the lower field below the bust. |
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Uganda's issuance of this piece had nothing to do with any particular connection between Einstein and East Africa — it belongs squarely to the commemorative coin programs that proliferated through small-nation mints in the late 1990s, when the Bank of Uganda, like dozens of other sovereign issuers, licensed its authority to produce silver collectibles with no domestic circulation intent whatsoever. These programs were administered almost entirely by European coin marketing firms, with the issuing country receiving a licensing fee.
Einstein died in Princeton in 1955, having renounced his German citizenship in 1933 upon Hitler's rise to power.