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1 Dollar FAO, Silver Proof issue
| Issuer | Trinidad and Tobago |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | A fruiting banana tree is depicted in the left-centre field, rendered in fine detail with broad fronds and a pendant bunch of bananas visible on the trunk. To the right, the denomination 1 DOLLAR is inscribed in large numerals and text. The circular FAO emblem — enclosing stylised wheat ears and a water droplet with the motto FIAT PANIS — appears in the lower right field. The legend FOOD FOR ALL arcs along the upper periphery, while 50TH ANNIVERSARY 1945–1995 curves along the lower border, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organisation. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Food and Agriculture Organization coin program, launched by the UN in 1968, commissioned member nations to issue coins carrying agricultural themes as a form of soft-power development messaging. Trinidad and Tobago participated across several decades, though by the mid-1990s the FAO program had lost much of its early institutional momentum. This silver proof variant of the 1995 issue was struck in very limited numbers for collector distribution rather than any circulation purpose.