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1 Tala - Elizabeth II 2nd portrait
| Issuer | Tokelau |
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| Year | 1980 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Arnold Machin's second definitive effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, diademed and draped bust facing right, her hair elaborately coiffed and adorned with a tiara. A border of raised beads surrounds the field. The legend TOKELAU arcs along the upper rim, with the date 1980 positioned to the right of the portrait. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Tokelau's 1980 coinage program was among the first attempts to give the territory — three atolls in the South Pacific administered by New Zealand — any numismatic identity at all. The islands had no indigenous coinage tradition and a cash economy so minimal that these pieces were aimed squarely at collectors rather than circulation. New Zealand assumed formal administrative responsibility under the Tokelau Islands Act of 1948, and it was not until the late 1970s that the territory began issuing coins under its own name.
The second portrait of Elizabeth II used here is the Machin effigy, first adopted across Commonwealth coinage from 1968 onward.