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1 Pa'anga
| Issuer | National Reserve Bank of Tonga |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Value | 1 Paʻanga |
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| Reverse lettering | National Reserve Bank of Tonga This Note Is Legal Tender In Tonga $1 Pa'anga 'e Taha |
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| Protection description | King Tupou V's portrait visible when held to light; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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| Comments |
Tonga's National Reserve Bank was established only in 1989, taking over central banking functions from the government treasury — which means this entire note series is relatively young by Pacific Island standards. De La Rue's involvement here is unsurprising; the firm has printed for Tonga across multiple series going back decades, and the P#37 issue continues that unbroken relationship.
The security package on this note is modest: watermark and thread only, with none of the optically variable ink or color-shifting features De La Rue was applying to higher-denomination Pacific notes around the same period. That reflects denomination economics, not oversight.