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50 Won FAO
| Issuer | Bank of Korea |
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| Year | 1972-1982 |
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| Value | 50 Won |
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| Reverse lettering | 1980 50 한국은행 (Translation: The Bank of Korea) |
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| Mintage | 1972 - - 6,000,000 1973 - - 40,000,000 1974 - - 25,000,000 1977 - - 1,000,000 1978 - - 15,000,000 1979 - - 20,000,000 1980 - - 10,000,000 1981 - - 25,000,000 1982 - - 40,000,000 1982 - Proof - 2,000 |
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Issued under the Food and Agriculture Organization coin program, which recruited central banks worldwide throughout the 1970s to mint circulating coins bearing agricultural themes as a form of development messaging. South Korea's participation came during a period of intense government-directed economic expansion — Park Chung-hee's administration had staked considerable political credibility on the Saemaul Undong rural modernization movement launched in 1970, making an FAO-affiliated agricultural coin a natural fit for official policy optics.
The FAO program itself wound down considerably after the late 1970s as participating nations lost interest in the initiative.