20 Ariary FAO, motto B

Madagascar joined the FAO coinage program — a United Nations initiative launched in the 1960s to raise agricultural awareness through circulating currency — relatively late, and this 1994 issue reflects the organization's sustained push into Francophone Africa during the post-Cold War period. The "motto B" designation distinguishes a specific reverse die variety by the positioning or rendering of the FAO inscription, a distinction catalogued under KM#24.1 against its counterpart.