10 Dinara FAO

Issued as part of the FAO's ongoing push in the 1970s to use coinage as a vehicle for agricultural awareness campaigns, this piece belongs to a wave of commemorative circulation strikes produced by dozens of nations at the FAO's request. Yugoslavia's participation reflected Tito's careful positioning of the country as a leader among non-aligned nations — agricultural self-sufficiency was a political statement as much as a policy goal.

The nickel brass alloy chosen here was relatively new to Yugoslav coinage at this point in the series.