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2000 Shillings Success
| Issuer | Bank of Uganda |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Currency | New shilling (1987-date) |
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| Obverse description | Two highly detailed Chinese dragons rendered in high relief occupy the central field, their sinuous scaled bodies intertwined around a flaming pearl at centre. The dragons are depicted in the traditional East Asian style, with clawed feet, flowing whiskers, and elaborate dorsal fins. The denomination legend '2000 SHILLINGS' arcs along the upper border in raised Latin lettering, while the inscription 'BANK OF UGANDA' is positioned along the lower border, flanking the Ugandan coat of arms at the bottom centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | 2000 SHILLINGS BANK OF UGANDA |
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| Additional information |
Uganda's "Success" series was part of a broader wave of sub-Saharan commemorative silver issues produced in the early 2000s for the international collector market rather than domestic circulation — coins like this were never intended to pass through Kampala's economy at face value. The Bank of Uganda licensed the designs to foreign minting operations, a common arrangement that kept production costs off the central bank's balance sheet.
KM#185 is catalogued with minimal provenance detail, and mintage figures for this issue remain poorly documented in standard references.