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20 Rupees FAO - Fisheries
| Issuer | Government of India |
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| Year | 1986 |
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| Value | 20 Rupees |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a vigorous scene of two fishermen hauling a fishing net from a boat, rendered in high relief with fine detail capturing the figures' dynamic postures and the texture of the net and water. The design promotes the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) theme of fisheries development. Arching across the upper portion of the field, the legend reads 'मत्स्य उद्योग' in Devanagari script to the left and 'FISHERIES' in Latin script to the right, with the year '1986' positioned centrally between the two inscriptions. 'FAO' appears in the lower exergual area. |
| Reverse script | Devanagari/Latin |
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India's FAO coinage series ran through the 1970s and 1980s as part of a broader United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization program that encouraged member nations to strike commemorative and circulating issues tied to specific development themes. The fisheries issue reflects India's mid-1980s push to expand marine and inland catch capacity under the Sixth Five-Year Plan, which targeted fishing as both a food security and export revenue priority.
At 25 grams and 39 millimeters, this is among the heaviest and largest denominations India produced for circulation in the period — a coin few people actually spent.