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5 Fils FAO
| Issuer | Central Bank of Yemen |
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| Year | 1974 |
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| Weight | 2.86 g |
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| Obverse description | Central device features the national emblem of the Yemen Arab Republic: a golden eagle displayed, with wings spread, bearing a shield on its breast decorated with horizontal stripes and a traditional Yemeni dagger (jambiya). The eagle clutches crossed branches in its talons, and a ribbon inscribed in Arabic appears below the emblem. The FAO commemorative legend in Arabic curves along the upper periphery of the field, reading 'For the increase of food crop production, Arab Republic of Yemen.' |
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| Reverse lettering | البنك المركزى اليمنى ٥ فلوس ١٣٩٤-١٩٧٤ (Translation: Central Bank of Yemen 5 Fils 1974-1394) |
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Issued as part of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization coin program, which ran through the 1970s and induced dozens of countries to mint commemorative circulation pieces tied to agricultural development campaigns. Yemen's participation reflected the broader effort by the FAO to use coinage itself as a medium for messaging in rural, low-literacy populations — the logic being that a coin handled daily could carry a development slogan further than any pamphlet.
The Yemen Arab Republic struck this piece in the year before unification pressures with the southern PDRY began escalating seriously. FAO issues from small states in this period are frequently underrepresented in high-grade collections due to modest original mintages and immediate heavy circulation.