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10 Paisa FAO
| Issuer | Pakistan |
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| Year | 1974-1981 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicting the Minar-e-Pakistan tower rising from a stylized base, superimposed upon a large crescent open to the right, with a five-pointed star to the upper left of the tower. Two decorative floral or foliate ornaments flank the central device on either side in the field. The Arabic legend 'حكومت پاكستان' (Government of Pakistan) curves across the upper field, and the date appears in the exergue below the central device. |
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| Obverse lettering | حكومت پاكستان 1974 (Translation: Government of Pakistan) |
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Struck as part of the FAO's global coin program, which partnered with dozens of national mints through the 1970s to embed agricultural messaging directly into circulating coinage. Pakistan's participation aligned with domestic food policy pressures following the famines and supply disruptions that shadowed the subcontinent in the early part of that decade. Aluminium was the practical choice — cheap enough to justify a coin that was essentially propaganda for grain self-sufficiency.
The series ran across eight years, an unusually long production window for an FAO issue, suggesting continued government commitment to the messaging rather than a one-off commemorative impulse.