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10 Tala - Tanumafili II Commonwealth Games
| Issuer | Samoa |
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| Year | 1982 |
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| Engraver(s) | E.W. Roberts |
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| Obverse description | The Western Samoan national coat of arms occupies the central field, depicting a quartered shield bearing a coconut palm and the Southern Cross constellation, surmounted by a Christian cross, and encircled by an olive wreath. A scroll below the shield bears the national motto in Latin script. The country name SAMOA I SISIFO arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination $10 appears in the lower field beneath the arms. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Issued to mark Samoa's participation in the 1982 Brisbane Commonwealth Games, this was one of several Pacific island nations producing commemorative silver in the early 1980s as a source of foreign currency revenue — a practice that generated far more coins than collectors and left most examples in original packaging rather than circulation. Tanumafili II, who co-held the O le Ao o le Malo title from 1963 and became sole head of state after Tupua Tamasese Meaole's death, served longer than any other Commonwealth head of state of his era, dying in office in 2007.