USh1000 — One Thousand Shillings
The artwork
Front: A farmer at work in the banana garden, bent over a digging stick, with broad matoke leaves filling the left of the note and tall maize with a ripening cob on the right — agriculture as the plain subject rather than any head of state. Between them the Uganda coat of arms, the crested crane and kob flanking the shield above the motto "For God and My Country", and the value in English and Swahili: One Thousand Shillings, Shilingi Elfu Moja.
Back: A grain silo complex in dark line engraving: four ribbed storage bins linked by an overhead conveyor gallery to a tall processing block, with two flat-bed lorries drawn up at the loading bays and scrub trees crowding the edges. Green guilloche rosettes fill both corners, the value repeats in English and Swahili at the right, and 1000 sits large at each end of the lower band.
In circulation
The dated 1991 printing of a design the Bank of Uganda kept in service through the 1990s and 2000s, with later date changes and only minor adjustments. It was retired with the wholly new family of Ugandan notes introduced in 2010, on which the 1,000 shillings carries quite different artwork.
Details
- IssuerBank of Uganda
- CurrencyShilling (USh)
- DenominationOne Thousand Shillings
- Collectedon the Uganda journey, 1992
- SeriesDated 1991; value in English and Swahili
- SignatureTwo: Governor and Secretary
- SecuritySerial BU 792327, printed vertically at left and horizontally at right