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50 Ngwee FAO
| Issuer | Bank of Zambia |
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| Year | 1972 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ZAMBIA 1972 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The 1972 50 Ngwee was struck as part of the FAO's broader campaign to promote agricultural awareness through coinage — a program that enlisted dozens of developing nations throughout the late 1960s and 1970s to mint issues with food and farming themes. Zambia's participation coincided with President Kaunda's push toward agricultural self-sufficiency under his Humanist economic philosophy, which had nationalized the copper industry in 1969 and left the government searching for alternative economic foundations.
Circulation was limited in practice; copper-nickel 50 Ngwee pieces of this period were large enough that many Zambians hoarded rather than spent them.