5 Cents Non-magnetic

Uganda's first decimal coinage, introduced at independence, was issued under contract by the Royal Mint in London. The 1966 series launched alongside the Ugandan shilling, replacing East African Currency Board issues that had circulated across Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda as a shared regional currency — a monetary union dissolved when each nation opted to issue independently.

Production effectively ended well before 1975; Idi Amin's 1971 coup and the economic disruption that followed curtailed normal currency operations.