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50 Shillings
| Issuer | Bank of Uganda |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Currency | Shilling (1966-1987) |
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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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| Variants | P#13a - light printing of bank building P#13b - dark printing of bank building |
| Comments |
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P#13 is relatively short-lived in the series, superseded within a few years as Uganda cycled through successive note redesigns during its turbulent early 1980s political instability.