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10 Tala The Queen Mother
| Issuer | Samoa |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A detailed high-relief architectural rendering of Glamis Castle, the Scottish ancestral seat associated with the childhood of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, occupies the central field, enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The upper legend QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER arcs around the outer periphery, with the secondary inscription HER YOUTH IN GLAMIS CASTLE following the curve of the inner beaded border. Small floral sprigs flank the date 1994, which appears in the lower exergue. |
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Issued as part of a wave of Commonwealth commemoratives marking Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's 94th birthday, this piece belongs to a genre that Pacific island mints leaned into heavily during the 1990s — low-mintage silver issues sold primarily to collector markets in Britain and the former dominions. Most were never intended for circulation and few ever saw it.
The Queen Mother died in March 2002 at age 101, making pieces from her later birthday commemoratives — particularly those issued in the final decade of her life — modestly more pursued by thematic collectors.