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1 Pa'anga 'Reine Salote'
| Issuer | Government of Tonga |
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| Year | 1967-1972 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green on multicolour underprint. A portrait of Queen Salote III is positioned at right, rendered in intaglio, with the Royal Coat of Arms of Tonga at lower left. Ornate guilloche borders frame the design, with bilingual inscriptions in Tongan above and the denomination stated in both numeral and text form. |
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| Reverse description | Olive-green and blue. A central vignette in blue presents a panoramic coastal landscape with tall palm trees, tropical vegetation, scattered dwellings, and hills receding to a bay in the background. The outer border is formed by an intricate olive-green guilloche pattern, with denomination counters reading "T$1" in blue at upper and lower right, flanking a large ornate rosette, and "1 PA'ANGA" inscribed vertically at left. |
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Tonga's first decimal currency notes were introduced in 1967 following the shift from pounds to pa'anga — a transition managed under Queen Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, who had succeeded his mother, Queen Sālote Tupou III, in 1965. This note's naming for Queen Sālote is a deliberate posthumous honour; she had died in Auckland while receiving treatment for an illness contracted, by most accounts, during her famous attendance at the 1953 coronation in London, where her warmth toward the crowds made her internationally recognized.
De La Rue handled the entire first decimal series, as they had the preceding pound notes.