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1000 Shillings Queen Mary
| Issuer | Bank of Uganda |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Weight | 28.28 g |
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| Obverse description | The obverse displays the national coat of arms of Uganda centrally in the field, featuring a kob antelope as supporter on the left and a grey crowned crane on the right, with a traditional shield bearing a sun motif at centre. A scroll at the base bears the national motto FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY. The legend BANK OF UGANDA arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination 1000 SHILLINGS appears in large characters along the lower periphery. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a right-facing draped bust of Queen Mary, depicted wearing a pearl necklace and an elaborately dressed upswept coiffure adorned with a brooch. The portrait is enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The legend QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER curves along the upper outer periphery, with the secondary inscription QUEEN MARY 1867-1953 positioned within the inner circle above the bust. The date 1999 appears in the lower exergue. |
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Queen Mary — Mary I of England — reigned from 1553 to 1558, and her inclusion on a Ugandan commemorative of this period reflects the broad licensing of royal portrait subjects through the Westminster Collection and similar distributors that flooded the market with thematic silver issues throughout the 1990s. Uganda's central bank authorized dozens of such pieces during this decade, few of which saw any domestic circulation.