2 Qirsh / 10 Halalāt - Khālid FAO

Issued under the FAO coinage program, which recruited national mints worldwide during the 1970s to produce low-denomination circulation pieces bearing agricultural themes as a form of soft development messaging. Saudi Arabia's participation was largely nominal — oil revenues had already transformed the kingdom's food import capacity far beyond the reach of smallholder farming programs the FAO coins were ostensibly meant to promote.