Catalog
1 Rupee FAO
| Issuer | State Bank of Pakistan |
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| Year | 1981 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | حکومت پاکستان ایک روپیہ 1981 |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Pakistan's 1981 FAO coinage was part of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's global program encouraging member states to issue coins with agricultural themes as a form of public education tied to food security campaigns. Pakistan participated repeatedly across the 1970s and 1980s, issuing FAO-designated pieces in multiple denominations. The 1 Rupee was the workhorse denomination for this purpose.
By 1981, the country was absorbing over three million Afghan refugees following the Soviet invasion — the largest refugee population in the world at the time — placing severe strain on domestic food production and distribution networks the FAO program was nominally meant to address.