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20,000 Shillings
| Issuer | Bank of Uganda |
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| Year | 2010-2022 |
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| Size | 147 × 72 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the 'Social-Economic Growth of Kampala City' Centenary Monument as installed in Centenary Park, Kampala, rendered in intaglio against a multicolour guilloche underprint. The Bank of Uganda name and denomination numerals appear in the upper register, with additional inscriptions framing the architectural subject. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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Thomas De La Rue has printed Ugandan currency continuously since independence, and this denomination entered circulation during a period when the shilling had lost so much ground to inflation that 20,000 units — unthinkable as a single note in earlier decades — had become routine for everyday transactions. Uganda's inflation peaked catastrophically in the early 1980s under Milton Obote's second government, and the long redenomination process that followed reshaped the entire note series over subsequent decades.
Pick 53 runs across a twelve-year print span with no major redesign, suggesting De La Rue kept the plate work largely stable throughout.