2000 Shillings George Weah

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.