10 Milliemes FAO

Egypt's 1980 FAO coinage was part of a coordinated United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization campaign that ran through dozens of member nations during the 1970s and 1980s, each country issuing low-denomination pieces tied to specific agricultural development themes. Egypt's participation reflected the Sadat government's heavy investment in rural modernization following the economic liberalization policies — Infitah — introduced after 1974, which redirected foreign capital into agricultural infrastructure along the Nile Delta.

Aluminium bronze was the standard FAO-program choice for Egypt's millieme denominations throughout this period, keeping production costs low enough that the coins could genuinely circulate at face value.