1 Guaraní Gold FAO

Issued under the FAO Food for All program, this gold striking of the 1 Guaraní was never intended for circulation — it exists as a collector piece produced at the request of international organizations promoting agricultural development coinage in the late 1970s. Paraguay's adoption of the FAO series was partly political, coinciding with Stroessner's government actively courting international institutional goodwill during a period of heavy foreign scrutiny.

The "a" suffix in KM#165a distinguishes this gold composition from the base-metal circulation issue of the same design. Mintage figures for this type are not reliably documented in standard references.