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100 Shillings
| Issuer | Bank of Uganda |
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| Year | 1979 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Vignette of the Bank of Uganda headquarters building at left, rendered in intaglio against a background of fine guilloche underprint in green and olive tones. A large numeral '100' appears at centre within an ornate diamond-pattern medallion, with the national arms at lower right flanked by 'GOVERNOR' and 'DIRECTOR' signature titles. The bank title and bilingual denomination 'ONE HUNDRED SHILLINGS / SHILINGI MIA MOJA' are lettered across the upper portion, with the legal tender clause below. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK OF UGANDA ONE HUNDRED SHILLINGS SHILINGI MIA MOJA LEGAL TENDER FOR ONE HUNDRED SHILLINGS 100 FOR BANK OF UGANDA FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY GOVERNOR DIRECTOR |
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The 1979 date places this note at a politically decisive moment: Idi Amin had just been deposed in April of that year following the Uganda-Tanzania War, and the incoming government of Yusufu Lule inherited both a collapsed economy and a currency infrastructure badly in need of legitimacy. Retaining Thomas De La Rue as printer provided exactly that kind of institutional continuity — the same firm had produced Uganda's notes since the country's earliest post-independence issues.
P#14 is a short-lived type, superseded relatively quickly as the post-Amin administrations cycled through governments at speed throughout 1979 and into 1980.