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5 Escudos FAO
| Issuer | Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda (INCM) |
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| Year | 1983 |
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| Value | 5 Escudos (5 PTE) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Portugal's 1983 FAO coinage was part of a broader United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization program that pressured member states to mint issues nominally tied to food security campaigns — in practice, an exercise in numismatic diplomacy more than agricultural policy. By 1983, Portugal was barely two years past its IMF bailout and operating under strict austerity measures, making the symbolic gesture of an FAO coin a peculiar footnote to a genuinely difficult fiscal moment.
The INCM had been producing FAO-themed pieces intermittently since the early 1970s. This particular emission under the Gomes reference R 40 sees relatively modest collector penetration outside Iberian specialist circles.