Uganda Cowries
As Uganda cowries or Uganda Missionaries , the first from March to 1895 in Uganda issued stamps called. The English word cowrie called formerly used among others in Uganda as payment Cowrie . The Uganda Cowries consisted only of motif-less paper stamps, which were made by the missionary Ernest Millar (1868-1917) in Mengo with a typewriter. The stamps bore the value in cowrie shells and the letters UG for Uganda . The first values of 5 to 60 Kauris were produced with a black typewriter ribbon, in December a second edition with violet letters followed. In June 1896 the third edition was produced, with the inscription V .96 on the upper edge . R ( Victoria Regina [18] 96 ) and below show the full country name UGANDA . From November 1896, these simple, typewriter stamps were replaced by editions using the letterpress process .