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5 Shilingi FAO
| Issuer | Bank of Tanzania |
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| Year | 1972-1980 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing portrait bust of President Julius Kambarage Nyerere occupying the central field of the decagonal flan, rendered in high relief with fine detail. Small stylised grain stalks flank the effigy on either side. The legend TANZANIA and the date 1980 arc across the upper periphery, while the Swahili inscription RAIS WA KWANZA (meaning The First President) curves along the lower periphery. The design is the work of engraver Christopher Ironside. |
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| Obverse lettering | TANZANIA 1980 RAIS WA KWANZA |
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Tanzania's FAO-themed coinage of the 1970s was part of a coordinated Food and Agriculture Organization program that encouraged member nations to mint coins promoting food production and agricultural self-sufficiency — a priority for Julius Nyerere's government, which had launched its Ujamaa village collectivization policy in 1967. The scheme forcibly relocated millions of Tanzanians into communal farming settlements by the mid-1970s, often at gunpoint, with results that fell well short of the agricultural abundance these coins were nominally celebrating.