200 Shillings IYDP, piedfort

The International Year of Disabled Persons was designated by the United Nations for 1981, and Uganda was among a small number of countries that issued piedfort collector pieces to mark it. Piedforts — struck at double the normal planchet thickness — were a format revived largely by the French Monnaie de Paris in the late 1970s and quickly adopted by other mints for prestige limited editions aimed at the collector market rather than circulation.

Uganda's economy was in severe disorder by 1981, the country still destabilized in the aftermath of Idi Amin's expulsion two years earlier. A silver piedfort commemorative was, under those conditions, strictly a hard-currency revenue instrument for the government.