5 Centimes FAO

Issued as part of the FAO's broader push in the late 1970s and early 1980s to encourage member nations to mint coins promoting food production and agricultural self-sufficiency. Algeria's participation reflected the government's concurrent focus on agrarian reform under Houari Boumédiène's post-independence socialist policies, though Boumédiène himself had died in 1978 — the coin arrived under Chadli Bendjedid, whose economic priorities were already shifting away from collectivized farming.