Catalog
50 Shillings
| Issuer | Bank of Uganda |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | Vignette of the Bank of Uganda headquarters building at left, rendered in fine intaglio line work against a multicolour guilloche underprint. A large numeral '50' appears at centre within an elaborate latticework panel, with the national arms at lower right flanked by two signature lines reading GOVERNOR and DIRECTOR. The serial number appears twice in red at upper right and lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK OF UGANDA FIFTY SHILLINGS SHILINGI HAMSINI LEGAL TENDER FOR FIFTY SHILLINGS 50 FOR BANK OF UGANDA FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY GOVERNOR DIRECTOR |
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The 1979 date is the key fact here. Uganda's 1979 notes mark the immediate post-Amin transition — Idi Amin fled in April that year as Tanzanian forces and Ugandan exiles took Kampala, and the Bank of Uganda was left to manage a currency system badly degraded by years of arbitrary money-printing and economic collapse. New issues were urgently needed to stabilize confidence, and De La Rue filled that gap quickly.
P#13 is relatively short-lived in the series, superseded within a few years as Uganda cycled through successive note redesigns during its turbulent early 1980s political instability.