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5 Shillings
| Issuer | Bank of Uganda |
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| Year | 1972 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | · BANK OF UGANDA · FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY FIVE SHILLINGS |
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Uganda's 1972 coinage arrived in the early months of Idi Amin's restructuring of state institutions following his January 1971 coup. The Bank of Uganda had been brought firmly under military government control, and new coin issues served the practical need of replacing Milton Obote-era currency with politically neutral designs. KM#18 is not a scarce type — it circulated widely — but examples with meaningful remaining detail are increasingly difficult to source, as the copper-nickel saw hard use in a cash-dependent economy with little banking infrastructure outside Kampala.