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10 Pa'anga
| Issuer | National Reserve Bank of Tonga |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Currency | Pa`anga (1967-date) |
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| Obverse description | Blue on multicolour underprint. Portrait of King Tupou VI positioned at right, with the Royal Coat of Arms at lower right; a 2.0 mm red-to-green windowed security thread runs vertically through the note. Fine guilloche patterns frame the principal vignettes, with the denomination and issuing authority inscriptions rendered in both English and Tongan. |
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| Reverse description | Blue on multicolour underprint. The central vignette presents the Royal Tombs compound in Nuku'alofa, with funerary monuments, statues, and surrounding trees rendered in fine intaglio line work. To the right, an elaborate guilloche medallion incorporating the Royal Order of Tonga star occupies the upper centre, while a decorative rosette enclosing the numeral 10 anchors the lower left corner. |
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Tonga's National Reserve Bank was established only in 2015, replacing the National Reserve Bank of Tonga that had operated since 1989 — the name change was subtle enough that many collectors conflate the two issuing authorities. This note falls at that institutional transition point, which makes precise attribution to the correct issuer worth confirming against the printed text rather than assuming from the Pick number alone.
De La Rue has printed Tongan currency through multiple series and political changes. The security specification here — watermark and thread only — is modest by contemporary standards, though consistent with low-denomination Pacific island issues of this period.