5 Rufiyaa FAO

Issued as part of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization coin program, which ran through the 1970s and into the 1980s and commissioned special strikes from dozens of developing nations to promote agricultural awareness and rural development. The Maldives issue was tied to FAO initiatives addressing food security in small island economies — fishing, rather than crop cultivation, was the relevant industry here.

KM#57 saw limited secondary circulation and tends to surface in respectable condition as a result.