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50 Rupees FAO
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of India |
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| Year | 1974 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#255 |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Devanagari |
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| Reverse lettering | PLANNED FAMILIES:FOOD FOR ALL 1974 नियोजित परिवार:सब के लिए अनाज |
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India's 1974 FAO commemorative was issued as part of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's broader "Food for All" campaign, which prompted dozens of countries to strike commemoratives simultaneously throughout the early-to-mid 1970s. India's participation reflected ongoing pressure from the 1943 Bengal famine's long political shadow and the country's chronic grain import dependency — the PL-480 wheat agreements with the United States had only ended two years prior.
The .500 fine silver specification was a deliberate cost-reduction choice at a moment when global silver prices were climbing sharply following the Hunt brothers' early market accumulations.