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20 Shillings
| Issuer | Bank of Uganda |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Size | 140 × 70 mm |
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| Reverse description | The Bank of Uganda headquarters building is rendered in fine intaglio at centre, flanked by two rampant antelopes at the base forming a heraldic tableau. Guilloche rosettes bearing the denomination numeral 20 appear in each upper corner, with the note printed in a two-tone scheme of deep purple and pale green underprint. |
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| Variants | P#12a - light printing of bank building P#12b - dark printing of bank building |
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Uganda's 1979 notes mark one of the more abrupt issuer transitions in East African banking history. Idi Amin's government had been printing its own series through the early 1970s, but the regime's collapse in April 1979 — when Tanzanian forces and Ugandan exiles took Kampala — necessitated a rapid currency transition. This De La Rue issue was part of that post-Amin emergency stabilization effort, produced in London for a country still in open military flux.
Pick 12 is notably scarce in circulated grades below VF, largely because economic instability drove hoarding almost immediately upon issue.