USh200 — Two Hundred Shillings
The artwork
Front: An orange and ochre field built from dense guilloche lattice. Left, the arms of Uganda: shield with sun, drum and waves, flanked by a kob and a crested crane, on the motto scroll "For God and My Country". Centre, the outline map of the country beneath "Bank of Uganda", with the value in English and Swahili — Two Hundred Shillings, Shilingi Mia Mbili — the date 1987, and signatures for Governor and Secretary Treasury.
Back: A working interior: a cotton spinning mill, with an attendant in shirt and trousers standing between a heap of raw cotton bales and a long row of spinning frames running away under the roof trusses. Drawn in red-brown and grey line engraving, framed by tall interlaced panels, with the bilingual denomination repeated along the bottom edge.
In circulation
Dated 1987, part of the first family of notes issued after Uganda's currency reform of that year, which struck two zeros from the old shilling. The design was reprinted with later dates into the 1990s before inflation retired it; a 200 shilling coin took over the value from 1998.
Details
- IssuerBank of Uganda
- CurrencyShilling (USh)
- DenominationTwo Hundred Shillings
- Collectedon the Uganda journey, 1992
- Series1987-dated issue of the reformed shilling
- SignatureGovernor and Secretary Treasury