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20 Đồng FAO
| Issuer | National Bank of Vietnam |
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| Year | 1968 |
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| Value | 20 Đồng |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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This piece was struck as part of the FAO's "Food for All" campaign, a United Nations initiative that prompted dozens of countries to issue commemorative coinage in the late 1960s with agricultural themes — Vietnam among them despite being in the middle of a war that had already devastated its rice economy. The National Bank issued it in 1968, the same year as the Tet Offensive, which effectively destroyed what remained of normal commercial circulation across much of South Vietnam.
Nickel clad steel was the pragmatic choice for a country with severely constrained mint resources; South Vietnam relied on foreign facilities for its coinage production throughout this period.