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10 Dobras FAO: Poultry
| Issuer | São Tomé and Príncipe |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Value | 10 Dobras (10 STD) |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of São Tomé and Príncipe occupies the central field, featuring a shield charged with a palm tree and flanked by two African grey parrots with wings displayed, surmounted by a five-pointed star above a scroll bearing the national motto. The date 1977 appears in the lower field below the arms. The encircling legend REPÚBLICA DEMOCRÁTICA DE S. TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE runs along the periphery in Latin characters. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPÚBLICA DEMOCRÁTICA DE S. TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE 1977 |
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São Tomé and Príncipe had been independent from Portugal for less than two years when this coin was struck. The FAO series was a practical vehicle for newly sovereign states to put agricultural messaging into everyday circulation, and the islands' government used it to promote domestic poultry production at a moment when food self-sufficiency was a genuine political priority, not a slogan. The timing aligned with broader post-independence restructuring of the plantation economy that had dominated the islands under colonial rule.
KM#29 is among the earlier issues of the new republic's coinage infrastructure.