Catalog
20 Shillings
| Issuer | Bank of Uganda |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Currency | Shilling (1966-1987) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK OF UGANDA TWENTY SHILLINGS SHILINGI ISHIRINI LEGAL TENDER FOR TWENTY SHILLINGS 20 FOR BANK OF UGANDA FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY GOVERNOR DIRECTOR |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK OF UGANDA TWENTY SHILLINGS SHILINGI ISHIRINI 20 (Translation: Twenty shillings) |
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Uganda's 1979 notes mark one of the more abrupt issuer transitions in East African banking history. Idi Amin's government had been printing its own series through the early 1970s, but the regime's collapse in April 1979 — when Tanzanian forces and Ugandan exiles took Kampala — necessitated a rapid currency transition. This De La Rue issue was part of that post-Amin emergency stabilization effort, produced in London for a country still in open military flux.
Pick 12 is notably scarce in circulated grades below VF, largely because economic instability drove hoarding almost immediately upon issue.