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5 Shillings Royal Wedding
| Issuer | Bank of Uganda |
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| Year | 1986 |
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| Value | 5 Shillings (5 UGS) |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the coat of arms of Uganda, featuring a shield supported by a Uganda kob (antelope) to the left and a grey crowned crane to the right, both standing on a grassy mound. The shield is surmounted by a traditional drum and displays a spear and a kob in its quarters. The circular legend reads 'BANK OF UGANDA' along the upper arc and 'FIVE SHILLINGS' along the lower arc, all within a beaded inner border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The 1986 date is jarring — Charles and Diana married in July 1981, making this a five-year retrospective issue rather than a contemporary commemorative. Uganda was in the middle of a violent political transition that year, with Yoweri Museveni having seized power in January following the bush war, and the national mint infrastructure was effectively non-functional. The coin was almost certainly struck by a foreign contract mint and holds no meaningful connection to Ugandan monetary circulation.