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50 Meticais FAO, Gold Proof issue
| Issuer | Banco de Moçambique |
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| Year | 1983 |
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| Engraver(s) | Stuart Devlin |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of the People's Republic of Mozambique is prominently centered in the field, depicting a shield bearing crossed rifle and hoe over a rising sun, flanked by a sugarcane stalk to the left and a maize ear to the right, all supported by an open book at the base and surmounted by a five-pointed star. A scroll at the base of the arms bears the inscription REPÚBLICA POPULAR DE MOÇAMBIQUE. The peripheral legend REPUBLICA POPULAR DE MOÇAMBIQUE curves along the upper rim, while the denomination 50 METICAIS and the date 1983 are inscribed in large numerals and letters in the lower field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The FAO coin program, which ran from the late 1960s through the 1980s, recruited developing-nation central banks to issue numismatic pieces promoting food security and agricultural development — partly as soft fundraising, partly as international visibility work. Mozambique's participation came just eight years after independence from Portugal and during a period of acute internal stress: RENAMO insurgency, Soviet-aligned economic restructuring, and a catastrophic regional drought were all simultaneously in motion by 1983.
The proof gold variant of KM#106 was struck in extremely limited quantities for collector markets, with the base metal circulation version doing the actual FAO messaging work.