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12 000 Shillings Mountain spirit
| Issuer | Bank of Uganda |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Technique | Proof |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents an intricate optical illusion composition by Swiss surrealist artist Sandro del Prete, depicting a mountain spirit whose face is formed by a naturalistic African landscape scene. Within the hidden face, a figure and animals can be discerned amid vegetation, trees, and rural dwellings, rendered in fine relief with exceptional artistic detail. Bare tree branches sweep across the upper field, simultaneously forming the brow and hair of the spirit figure. The legend 'ILLUSION' is inscribed in bold letters along the upper periphery, with the artist's signature 'Sandro del Prete' and the date '2001' positioned in the lower field and exergue respectively. |
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| Mintage | 2001 - Proof |
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Uganda's gold coinage from this period was produced almost entirely for the collector export market — the Bank of Uganda issued virtually no gold currency intended for domestic circulation, and the 2001 program was contracted through outside minting houses rather than struck locally. The "Mountain Spirit" title almost certainly references the Rwenzori range on Uganda's western border, a glaciated massif that Ptolemy may have recorded as the Mountains of the Moon.