Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Meticais FAO, Silver Piedfort
| Issuer | Mozambique |
|---|---|
| Year | 1983 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | KM#P1 |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | A traditional African sailing fishing raft is depicted at centre, with a single large lateen sail billowing to the right and a figure seated at the helm, rendered against a stylised ocean background of undulating wave patterns that fill the field. Two circular fish motifs flank the lower portion of the design, left and right. The curved legend 'FAO - CONFERENCIA MUNDIAL DAS PESCAS' arcs along the upper periphery, and the date range '1983-84' appears in the lower exergue, commemorating the FAO World Fisheries Conference. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | FAO - CONFERÊNCIA MUNDIAL DAS PESCAS 1983-84 (Translation: World Fisheries Conference) |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
The FAO coin program, launched in 1968, commissioned member nations to issue coins promoting food security and agricultural development — most were base-metal circulation strikes with negligible collector interest. Mozambique's piedfort entry is the exception. Piedforts, struck at twice the standard planchet thickness using the same dies, were produced almost exclusively for collectors and presentation sets; the format has French origins dating to medieval royal mints where double-thickness pieces served as official die records.
Post-independence Mozambique in 1983 was in the grip of civil war between FRELIMO and RENAMO, making a silver piedfort struck for international numismatic consumption a striking contrast to the economic collapse inside the country's own borders.