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50 Escudos FAO
| Issuer | Banco de Cabo Verde |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 ESCUDOS CABOVERDIANOS 1984 REPÚBLICA DE CABO VERDE |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued under the FAO coin program, which ran from the late 1960s through the 1980s as a United Nations-backed initiative to promote agricultural awareness through circulating coinage. Cape Verde, independent from Portugal only since 1975, was still restructuring its monetary institutions when this piece was struck — the Banco de Cabo Verde itself had been established just the year prior to independence. FAO issues from small post-colonial states in this period were frequently struck in limited quantities and saw minimal actual circulation, distributed largely to collectors and foreign institutions rather than domestic commerce.