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2000 Shillings Birth of Jesus
| Issuer | Bank of Uganda |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Weight | 19.9 g |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK OF UGANDA 1996 2000 SHILLINGS FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY |
| Reverse description | A large, front-facing portrait of Jesus Christ dominates the central field, rendered in high relief with long hair and a crown of thorns upon his head, his bearded face depicted with solemn expression. The portrait fills the majority of the coin's field, with a wide flat border surrounding it carrying multilingual inscriptions commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ. The legends appear in five languages — German, English, French, Spanish, and Russian — arranged continuously around the entire circumference of the coin. |
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Part of Uganda's mid-1990s commemorative program, this issue was produced for the export collector market rather than domestic circulation — a pattern common among smaller central banks seeking foreign exchange through numismatic sales. The Bank of Uganda had no meaningful tradition of silver coinage, and pieces like this were essentially contracted through outside minting agents and distributed through international dealers.
KM#94 sits in a crowded field of similar Christian-themed commemoratives issued by African and Pacific nations throughout the 1990s, most sharing the same economic logic: low mintage overhead, reliable collector demand, negligible domestic relevance.