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<p>[QUOTE="mlov43, post: 3130785, member: 16729"]I asked a representative from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization about the current status of the <b>Money and Medals</b> programme that got all those countries over the years to put food-related designs on their coinage and medals. The M&M program started in 1968, but I was not sure about when it ended, if it had ended, only rumors that it had stopped. A user here I think told me it closed down in 2004.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I asked the FAO!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the first reply that I got from the FAO:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>"Thank you for your interest in FAO and the Money and Medals Programme. I am the only one still working in FAO that worked on for many years with the programme. Unfortunately, it closed down about 7 years ago </i>[that would have been 2011]<i>. FAO is not selling or dealing with any medals or coins." </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>And then the representative got back to me later after asking around some more:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>"Please kindly note I have been informed from the Legal office of the following:</i></p><p><i>'The Money and Medals Programme <b>has not been actively advertised</b> over the past years, it is our understanding from a review of the records that <b>the Programme has not been officially closed</b>.'"</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Well, that clears that up. I guess it hasn't closed down, they just aren't promoting it any more!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]798525[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="mlov43, post: 3130785, member: 16729"]I asked a representative from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization about the current status of the [B]Money and Medals[/B] programme that got all those countries over the years to put food-related designs on their coinage and medals. The M&M program started in 1968, but I was not sure about when it ended, if it had ended, only rumors that it had stopped. A user here I think told me it closed down in 2004. So, I asked the FAO! Here is the first reply that I got from the FAO: [I]"Thank you for your interest in FAO and the Money and Medals Programme. I am the only one still working in FAO that worked on for many years with the programme. Unfortunately, it closed down about 7 years ago [/I][that would have been 2011][I]. FAO is not selling or dealing with any medals or coins." [/I] And then the representative got back to me later after asking around some more: [I]"Please kindly note I have been informed from the Legal office of the following: 'The Money and Medals Programme [B]has not been actively advertised[/B] over the past years, it is our understanding from a review of the records that [B]the Programme has not been officially closed[/B].'" [/I] Well, that clears that up. I guess it hasn't closed down, they just aren't promoting it any more! [ATTACH=full]798525[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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