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5 Laari FAO
| Issuer | Maldives Monetary Authority |
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| Year | 1984-1990 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Two Bonito fish (skipjack tuna) depicted in high relief at centre, swimming to the left, one slightly overlapping the other. A decorative rope with a reef knot is rendered in the lower field, its ends extending toward the scalloped border. The Gregorian year 1990 appears to the upper left in the field, and the Hijri year ١٤١١ to the upper right. The mint mark MMA appears below the rope knot at the bottom of the field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin/Thaana |
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Issued under the Food and Agriculture Organization coin program, which ran globally from the late 1960s onward and recruited dozens of developing-nation mints to produce low-denomination pieces promoting agricultural self-sufficiency. The Maldives participation reflected a specific FAO push into small island economies during the 1980s, tying coinage to fisheries and food security messaging rather than conventional agricultural themes — appropriate for an archipelago with almost no arable land.
The aluminium composition kept production costs negligible, a practical necessity for a denomination worth fractions of a US cent at contemporary exchange rates.