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1 Pa'anga - Taufa'ahau
| Issuer | National Reserve Bank of Tonga |
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| Year | 1992-1995 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green on multicolour underprint. Portrait of King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV at right, with the Royal Coat of Arms of Tonga at left. Guilloche patterning fills the underprint across the note face, with bilingual inscriptions in Tongan rendered in the upper and lower border registers. |
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| Protection description | King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV portrait, visible when held to light |
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The National Reserve Bank of Tonga was established in 1989, replacing the Bank of Tonga, and this series reflects that institutional transition — the new issuing authority's name appearing on notes that otherwise followed closely the design conventions of their predecessors. Thomas De La Rue had printed Tongan currency for decades by this point, a relationship that gave the kingdom's notes a consistency unusual among Pacific island states of comparable size.
Tonga's currency has never been decimalized in the conventional sense — the Pa'anga and Seniti system introduced in 1967 replaced pounds but was designed with a 100-seniti base from the outset, sidestepping the messy conversions that troubled other Commonwealth transitions.