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20 Maloti - Moshoeshoe II FAO
| Issuer | Lesotho |
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| Year | 1969 |
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| Value | 20 Maloti |
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| Obverse lettering | LESOTHO 1969 MOSHOESHOE |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued in the same year Lesotho joined the FAO's campaign against world hunger, this piece was part of a coordinated international program that prompted dozens of newly independent nations to strike commemorative gold in the late 1960s. For Lesotho — landlocked, mountainous, and almost entirely dependent on South African labor markets — the FAO framing carried genuine weight. Agricultural self-sufficiency was not an abstract goal but an acute national vulnerability.
Moshoeshoe II had been installed as king only three years earlier, in 1966, the same year independence was granted from Britain. Mintage was extremely limited, produced primarily for collectors rather than circulation.