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20 Paise FAO
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of India |
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| Year | 1970-1971 |
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| Weight | 4.5 g |
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| Obverse lettering | भारत INDIA पैसे 20 PAISE |
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| Reverse script | Latin / Devanagari |
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Issued as part of the FAO's Freedom from Hunger campaign, this coin was struck specifically to promote agricultural development in India at a time when the Green Revolution was transforming wheat and rice yields across the Punjab and Haryana. The FAO series gave the Reserve Bank a rare occasion to depart from standard coinage messaging — the political will behind the issue came directly from New Delhi's alignment with UN development priorities in the early Nehru-successor period.
The two-year window of 1970–71 is narrow, and the Bombay and Calcutta mints both contributed to output, making mint-mark attribution the primary differentiator between examples.