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5 Denari FAO
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic/Latin |
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| Reverse description | The central device features a stylized ear of wheat, the emblem of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The denomination 5 ДЕНАРИ / DENARS appears in the field, flanked by the FAO motto FIAT PANIS rendered in both Latin and Cyrillic as ЛЕБ ЗА СИТЕ. The commemorative inscription F A O and the founding-to-anniversary date span 1945–1995 mark the 50th anniversary of the FAO. A beaded border surrounds the entire design. |
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Macedonia issued this coin as part of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's ongoing campaign to promote agricultural awareness through circulating coinage — a program that had been placing FAO-themed pieces into everyday commerce across dozens of countries since the late 1960s. For Macedonia specifically, the timing mattered: the country had declared independence from Yugoslavia in 1991 and was still navigating an internationally awkward existence, blocked from UN membership under its constitutional name due to Greek objections over the "Macedonia" designation.
The National Bank had only been established in 1992, making this among the earliest substantive coin series issued under genuine Macedonian monetary authority.