1000 Shillings Frauenkirche

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.