USh100 — One Hundred Shillings
The artwork
Front: The Uganda coat of arms fills the left panel: a shield with sun, drum and waves over the Nile, flanked by a kob antelope and a grey crowned crane, on a scroll reading FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY. At centre, an outline map of Uganda sits above the issuer's name and the denomination in English and Swahili — ONE HUNDRED SHILLINGS / SHILINGI MIA MOJA. Deep blue and teal guilloche throughout, with 1988 beside a second small arms device.
Back: A long, arcaded public building in pale blue-grey, two storeys of tall windows stepping down a slope to a squat clock tower at the left end — an institutional colonial-era block, rendered from a low angle with hills behind. Broad crossed diagonal bands in teal and slate frame the scene, with 100 repeated at each corner and the bilingual denomination spelled out along the foot.
In circulation
Part of the shilling family issued after Uganda's 1987 currency reform, which lopped two zeros off the old shilling; this piece carries the 1988 date. Inflation steadily eroded the lower values, and the hundred was eventually superseded by a 100-shilling coin, with paper money concentrating on the higher denominations.
Details
- IssuerBank of Uganda
- CurrencyShilling (USh)
- DenominationOne Hundred Shillings
- Collectedon the Uganda journey, 1992
- SeriesPost-reform shilling issue, dated 1988
- SignatureGovernor and Secretary, Treasury
- SecuritySerial number PE164767, printed in black at upper right and lower left