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1000 Shillings Lion
| Issuer | Bank of Uganda |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#78 |
| Obverse description | The obverse features the coat of arms of Uganda centred in the field, depicting a shield supported by a kob antelope to the left and a grey crowned crane to the right, with the River Nile and a drum motif on the shield. A scroll below bears the national motto FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY. The legend BANK OF UGANDA arcs along the upper periphery, with the date 20 01 divided on either side of the central device, and the denomination 1000 SHILLINGS inscribed along the lower rim. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a coloured inset in the form of a postage stamp bearing the portrait of a male lion in three-quarter view against a naturalistic background, inscribed SOUTH AFRICA on the stamp's left margin. The stamp is set against a frosted silhouette of the African continent occupying the central field. The legend COLOURFUL BIG FIVE arcs along the upper periphery and OF AFRICA along the lower, all rendered against a polished proof background. |
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Uganda's shilling had collapsed so severely through the 1970s and 1980s — largely a consequence of Idi Amin's economic mismanagement and the subsequent Milton Obote instability — that a 1000-shilling coin would have been unthinkable for most of the country's post-independence history. By 2001, monetary stabilization under the Bank of Uganda had finally made high-denomination circulating coinage practical again.