Product Description
SCWPM.#50a - TBB.#155a - Date: 2010Grade: Unc. - Signature: 14 - Prefix: AL
Description: Colour: Blue. Front: English and Swahili text; profile of a man wearing Karimojong headdress; Source of the Nile Monument in Njeru; Nile river; purple-to-green OVI patch; coat of arms.
Back: English and Swahili text; profile of a man wearing Karimojong headdress; sun; map; talapia fish; National Independence monument in Kampala.
Red-to-green windowed security thread with demetalized BOU II.
Watermark: Crested crane, electrotype 2000, and Cornerstones.
Printer: (De La Rue). - Size: 135 x 66 mm. - Material: Paper
2010 - 2019 Issues - These notes feature a harmonized banknote design that depict Uganda’s rich historical, natural, and cultural heritage. They also bear improved security features. Five images appear on all the six denominations: Ugandan mat patterns, Ugandan basketry, the map of Uganda (complete with the equator line), the Independence Monument, and a profile of a man wearing Karimojong headdress.
Bank of Uganda Governor Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile said the new notes did not constitute a currency reform, nor were they dictated by politics. The redesign, he said, was driven by the need to comply with international practices and to beat counterfeiters.
“Uganda is the first country in Africa to introduce the ultra-modern security feature called SPARK,” an optical variable ink from SICPA first used on Kazakhstan’s 5,000-tengé commemorative of 2008.
These notes bear no printer imprint, though it is known that De La Rue was involved in the design of at least the 20,000-shilling note, and likely all the other denominations, too. However, a contract dated 26 July 2018 required Oberthur Fudiciaire to print 170 million 5,000-shilling notes and 130 million 10,000-shilling notes. The dates of these notes is unknown.Each note has a 7-digit serial number and 2-letter prefix. The prefixes start at AA, and the second letter advances alphabetically over time before advancing the first letter. New date and signature varieties have prefixes that resume where the preceding varieties end.
Source: The Banknotebook.
