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2000 Shillings Zhangjiajie

Issuer Bank of Uganda
Year 2003
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Obverse script Latin
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Reverse lettering 湖南張家界 2003
(Translation: Zhangjiajie, Hunan)
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Additional information

Uganda's commemorative program in the early 2000s produced a series of silver issues featuring international natural landmarks, a practice common among smaller central banks generating hard-currency revenue through collector sales rather than circulation. Zhangjiajie — the sandstone pillar formations in Hunan Province that later inspired the floating mountains in *Avatar* — is an unusual subject for a Ugandan coin, with no historical or diplomatic tie to justify its appearance beyond the commercial logic of the numismatic novelty market.

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