2000 Shillings Hong Kong

Uganda's late-1990s commemorative program produced a string of silver issues tied to subjects with no meaningful connection to the country — Hong Kong's 1997 handover to China being among the more geographically ambitious. These were collector pieces aimed squarely at the international thematic market, never intended to circulate, and issued in the same year as the event itself to catch demand from buyers commemorating the end of 156 years of British colonial administration. The Bank of Uganda was one of dozens of smaller issuing authorities that licensed such subjects during this period.