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25 Shillings FAO
| Issuer | Somalia |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Value | 25 Shillings (25 Shilin) (25 SOS) |
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| Obverse lettering | JAMHURIYADDA DIMOQRAADIGA SOOMAALIYA جمهورية الصومال الديمقراطية (Translation: Democratic Republic of Somalia) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued under the FAO coinage program, which ran from the late 1960s through the 1980s and recruited developing nations to mint coins promoting food production and agricultural development. Somalia's participation was largely nominal — by 1984, the country was deep into the cycle of drought and famine that would culminate in the catastrophic 1991 collapse of the Siad Barre government. The FAO program paid participating mints and governments a fee per coin struck, giving cash-strapped states a financial incentive that often had little to do with actual agricultural policy.