2 Lire Against Hunger in the World

San Marino issued this piece as part of the FAO coinage program, a United Nations initiative that recruited small nations throughout the 1970s to mint low-denomination coins bearing agricultural themes in place of standard national issues. The program was largely symbolic — few of these coins reached the populations the campaign was nominally designed to serve — but it produced an unusually diverse body of mid-century small-state coinage across dozens of participating countries.