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1 Tala - Elizabeth II 2nd portrait
| Issuer | Tokelau |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Composition | Copper-nickel |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded. |
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Tokelau — three atolls with a combined land area under 12 square kilometers — began issuing collector coinage in 1978 largely as a revenue mechanism, the islands having virtually no export economy beyond copra. The 1981 tala falls within that early run, issued while Tokelau remained a non-self-governing territory administered by New Zealand under a UN mandate that has never been formally resolved. The second portrait of Elizabeth II, by Arnold Machin, had been in circulation on Commonwealth coinage since 1968.