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50 Senti FAO
| Issuer | Somalia |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#26, Schön#26 |
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| Reverse description | Central device features an abundant agricultural composition comprising ears of wheat, corncobs, bananas, and assorted fruits and produce, arranged in a decorative display emblematic of the FAO food and agricultural programme. The denomination senti 50 appears in Latin script alongside its Arabic equivalent سنت, with the year 1976 inscribed both in Western Arabic numerals and Eastern Arabic-Indic numerals ١٩٧٦, all positioned above the central motif. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued as part of the FAO coinage program, which recruited dozens of nations throughout the 1970s to mint coins bearing agricultural themes as a low-cost vehicle for promoting food security messaging. Somalia's participation came during the early years of Siad Barre's scientific socialist government, which had nationalized much of the economy following the 1969 coup. The FAO series gave smaller issuing states an externally funded rationale for new coinage without bearing the full cost of a standard commemorative program.