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500 Dobras FAO
| Issuer | Banco Central de São Tomé e Príncipe |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Thickness | 1.9 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | REPÚBLICA DEMOCRÁTICA DE S. TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE REPÚBLICA DEMOCRÁTICA DE S. TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE UNIDADE DISCIPLINA TRABALHO 1997 |
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| Reverse lettering | AUMENTEMOS A PRODUÇÃO 500 DOBRAS |
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São Tomé e Príncipe issued this piece as part of the FAO's long-running program encouraging member nations to mint coins promoting food security and agricultural development — a program that produced hundreds of distinct types across dozens of countries from the 1960s onward. For an archipelago nation this small, with a population under 150,000 at the time, the chromium-clad steel composition was a practical concession to the cost of maintaining a stable circulating coinage.