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2000 Shillings George Weah
| Issuer | Bank of Uganda |
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| Year | 2006 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK OF UGANDA 2006 FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY 2000 SHILLINGS |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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George Weah's 2006 inclusion on Ugandan commemorative coinage is a curiosity of the genre — Weah is Liberian, played his club football in Europe, and has no discernible connection to Uganda. The Bank of Uganda issued a wave of these celebrity and world-figure pieces in the mid-2000s purely as collector product for the international numismatic market, with no pretense of domestic relevance. Silver-plated copper-nickel was the standard material choice for this commercial tier, keeping production costs low against a modest retail premium.