10 Tala - Tanumafili II Jubilee, Piedfort

Malietoa Tanumafili II was one of the two O le Ao o le Malo — joint heads of state — who led Samoa into independence in 1962, and by 1992 he had outlasted his co-equal, Tupua Tamasese Mea'ole, by nearly three decades. The jubilee marked thirty years of independence, not a personal reign anniversary. Tanumafili II would continue in office until his death in 2007, making him the longest-serving head of state in the world at that time.

The piedfort format — double the standard planchet thickness — was a deliberate collector device with no circulation mandate. KM#P2 sits in a very short Samoan piedfort sequence.