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10 Pa'anga
| Issuer | Government of Tonga |
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| Year | 1973-1981 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue on multicolour underprint. A portrait of King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV appears at right, with the Royal Coat of Arms vignette positioned at lower left. The face value and bilingual inscriptions in Tongan are arranged across the note within a guilloche-patterned border. |
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| Reverse description | Blue and purple. A detailed intaglio vignette of the Royal Palace in Nuku'alofa occupies the central panel, rendered with fine architectural linework against a landscaped setting with trees. Guilloche rosette ornaments appear at right, with the denomination printed in both numeral and text form flanking the central vignette. |
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Tonga's Government — not a central bank — issued this series directly through the Treasury, an arrangement that persisted until the National Reserve Bank of Tonga was established in 1989. Thomas De La Rue printed the notes throughout the run, and the series remained in use across nearly a decade without a major design revision, which is unusual for a Pacific issuer navigating the currency volatility of the 1970s.
The pa'anga itself only came into existence in 1967, replacing the Tongan pound at par with the Australian dollar.