10 Dobras FAO: Poultry

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.