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50 Escudos FAO, Gold
| Issuer | Banco de Cabo Verde |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Central denomination '50 ESCUDOS' appears prominently within the field, flanked by the circular legend 'REPÚBLICA DE CABO VERDE' along the upper periphery and the date '1984' at the lower portion. The national coat of arms of Cape Verde is depicted, featuring the torch and book emblem set against a stylized design consistent with the post-independence republican iconography. The inscriptions are rendered in clean serif lettering characteristic of official commemorative issues. |
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| Reverse lettering | FAO CONFERENCIA MUNDIAL DE PESCA SARGO DE CABO VERDE 1983-84 |
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The FAO coin program, launched in the 1960s, commissioned member nations to strike issues whose designs promoted food security and agricultural development — a diplomatic project as much as a numismatic one. Cape Verde, independent from Portugal only since 1975, used the program to assert institutional presence on the world stage while the country was still building its central banking infrastructure from scratch.
KM#22 exists in three metal variants; the gold .917 strikes were produced in sharply limited quantities intended for collector and diplomatic distribution rather than circulation.