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1 Pa'anga - Taufa'ahau Tupou IV 75th Birthday
| Issuer | National Reserve Bank of Tonga |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | KINGDOM OF TONGA 1993 ONE PA`ANGA |
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Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, who ruled Tonga from 1965 until his death in 2006, was for a period officially recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world's heaviest monarch — a distinction his government eventually discouraged publicizing. By 1993, Tonga's commemorative silver program had become a significant source of foreign exchange revenue, with issues marketed almost entirely to overseas collectors rather than domestic circulation. This piece never meaningfully passed through Tongan hands as currency.