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25 Cents O.A.U. Meeting, FAO
| Issuer | Republic of Liberia |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | Central device depicts a standing female figure facing slightly left, balancing a large woven basket laden with leafy produce atop her head, her right arm raised to steady the load. The date 1979 appears to the left of the figure and the numeral 25 to the right, flanking the central effigy within a beaded inner circle. The upper legend GROW MORE FOOD arcs above, separated by five-pointed stars at each side, while TWENTY-FIVE CENTS curves boldly along the lower arc outside the inner circle, reflecting the FAO food production campaign theme. |
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| Edge | Reeded with inscription |
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The 1979 OAU summit was held in Monrovia — a rare moment of continental prestige for Liberia, which hosted the Organization of African Unity's annual heads-of-state conference that July. The FAO co-branding ties the issue to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's broader numismatic program, which partnered with dozens of nations through the 1970s to produce commemorative coinage nominally promoting food security awareness.
KM#30a distinguishes the copper-nickel version from a silver variant struck for collectors. The circulating issue was the one Liberians actually handled.