Catalog
10 Poisha FAO, large type
| Issuer | Bangladesh Bank |
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| Year | 1977-1980 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Bengali |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Bangladesh launched its first FAO-series coinage in the mid-1970s as part of a broader United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization campaign encouraging member nations to mint coins promoting agricultural self-sufficiency. The program was particularly pointed for Bangladesh, which had suffered catastrophic famine in 1974 — just three years after independence — killing an estimated 1.5 million people. Aluminium was the practical choice for a country still building monetary infrastructure from scratch after the 1971 Liberation War.
The "large type" designation distinguishes KM#11.1 from the reduced KM#11.2 variant introduced later in the series run.