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1 Tālā
| Issuer | Monetary Board of Western Samoa |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse bears a central vignette of the Samoan coastline viewed from a distance, flanked by a vignette of female weavers engaged in traditional mat weaving. The national flag of Samoa appears within the design, accompanied by the issuing authority inscriptions in both Samoan and English. Fine guilloche underprint work frames the composition throughout. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Western Samoa's Monetary Board replaced the earlier Western Samoan Tala series in 1980, continuing its relationship with Thomas De La Rue that dated back to the first tālā notes of 1967. The spelling shift from "Tala" to "Tālā" — the macron acknowledging the correct Samoan long vowel — appeared inconsistently across issues of this period, and catalog references sometimes conflate the two orthographies.
P#19 carries only a watermark as its security provision, modest even by 1980 Pacific island standards. De La Rue was printing far more complex security work simultaneously for other clients.