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2000 Pesos FAO - Pineapple Harvest
| Issuer | Banco Nacional da Guiné-Bissau |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Guinea-Bissau's currency independence was short-lived. The country issued its own peso from 1975 following independence from Portugal, but chronic fiscal instability and dependence on foreign aid made maintaining a sovereign currency increasingly untenable. By 1997, Guinea-Bissau abandoned the peso entirely and joined the West African CFA franc zone — meaning this FAO issue was struck just two years before the denomination it celebrates ceased to exist.
The FAO coin program funded participating nations' minting costs in exchange for agricultural-themed issues, a arrangement that produced some of the more obscure modern coinage of the late twentieth century.