FAO coins
FAO coins are a coin program of the Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ). In cooperation with the FAO, individual states issue special coins. The proceeds from the coins were and are used to finance FAO projects. The coins usually have rather low denominations, mostly carry the inscription "FAO" and requests to increase food production, and usually show agricultural motifs.
The following countries have issued FAO coins:
- Egypt , Algeria ,
- Bahrain , Bangladesh , Bhutan , Burma , Bolivia , Brazil , Burundi
- Ceylon , Cook Islands ,
- Dominica , Dominican Republic ,
- Fiji ,
- Gambia , Ghana , Grenada , Guyana ,
- Haiti ,
- India , Indonesia , Isle of Man , Iraq , Iran , Italy ,
- Jamaica , Yemen (North), Jordan , Yugoslavia ,
- Cape Verde , Comoros , Cuba ,
- Lebanon , Liberia ,
- Madagascar , Maldives , Mali , Order of Malta , Morocco , Macedonia , Montserrat ,
- Nepal , Nicaragua , North Korea ,
- Oman ,
- Pakistan , Panama , Paraguay , Poland ,
- Rwanda ,
- Solomon Islands , Zambia , St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla , St. Lucia , São Tomé and Príncipe , St. Vincent , San Marino , Saudi Arabia , Seychelles , Sierra Leone , Singapore , Somalia , Spain , Sri Lanka , Sudan , Swaziland , Syria ,
- Taiwan ,
- Tanzania , Thailand , Tonga , Trinidad and Tobago , Tunisia , Turkey ,
- Uganda , Hungary , Uruguay ,
- Vanuatu , Vatican City , United Arab Emirates ,
- Vietnam (South),
- West African Monetary Union , Western Samoa , Cyprus .
Ajman and Lesotho have issued gold coins with FAO motifs, but these have not been recognized as official FAO coins by the FAO.
Examples
- Guyana : $ 1 1970, obverse: picture by Cuffy , inscription: " Berbice Revolt February 23, 1763"; Back: state, value, year, inscription: "Food for all", picture of a cow and grain .
- 4 dollars 1970, obverse: inscription: "Inauguration of the Caribbean Development Bank", country, coat of arms, year; Back: Inscription: "Grow more food for all mankind", sugar cane, bananas, value. Coins of this design were issued simultaneously by Antigua , Barbados , Dominica , Grenada , Montserrat , St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla , St. Lucia , St. Vincent . They only differed in terms of the country's name and coat of arms. At the time, the country of St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla consisted de facto only of St. Christopher and Nevis , as Anguilla split off unilaterally in 1967 and declared independent in 1969 , which was not recognized by Great Britain .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1997
- ^ A b Günter Schön, World Coin Catalog 20th Century, Battenberg, 1991