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1000 Shillings Frauenkirche
| Issuer | Bank of Uganda |
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| Year | 1994 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK OF UGANDA 19 94 FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY 1000 SHILLINGS |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Uganda's 1994 commemorative program was an unabashed exercise in the tourist coin trade — European architectural subjects had no meaningful connection to Uganda's history or monetary affairs. The Frauenkirche at the time of this issue was still a bombed-out ruin in Dresden, its reconstruction not formally begun until 1994, the same year this coin was struck. Whether that timing was intentional is unclear, but it gives the piece a faintly ironic edge: a celebration struck in the year the rebuilding finally started.