5 Qirsh FAO

Issued under the FAO coinage program, which commissioned dozens of nations throughout the 1970s to strike coins bearing agricultural themes as a vehicle for promoting food production awareness in developing countries. Sudan's participation came during a period of cautious economic optimism under Nimeiry's government, just before the late-1970s debt crisis began to bite. The two-year run across 1976 and 1978 reflects typical FAO contract scheduling rather than any particular policy shift between those dates.