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500 Shillings Pope Paul VI
| Issuer | Bank of Uganda |
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| Year | 1969-1970 |
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| Value | 500 Shillings (500 UGS) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | FIVE HUNDRED SHILLINGS FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY 500 1969 |
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Issued to commemorate Pope Paul VI's visit to Uganda in July 1969 — the first papal visit to Africa in history — this piece was struck in a very limited quantity for a country that had only gained independence from Britain in 1962. Paul VI flew to Kampala to attend the canonization of the Uganda Martyrs, twenty-two Catholic converts executed on the orders of Kabaka Mwanga II between 1885 and 1887. The political timing was deliberate: Idi Amin's coup was still eighteen months away, and Milton Obote's government welcomed the international visibility.