Issued to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations, this was part of a coordinated wave of commemorative coinage produced by dozens of member states in 1995 — Uganda among them. The Bank of Uganda had only gained full independence from the East African Currency Board in 1966, and commemorative issues of this scale remained relatively infrequent, making the UN50 series one of the more prominent releases of the decade for the institution.
Issued to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations, this was part of a coordinated wave of commemorative coinage produced by dozens of member states in 1995 — Uganda among them. The Bank of Uganda had only gained full independence from the East African Currency Board in 1966, and commemorative issues of this scale remained relatively infrequent, making the UN50 series one of the more prominent releases of the decade for the institution.