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100 Pa'anga - Taufa'ahau Tupou IV Goalie
| Issuer | National Reserve Bank of Tonga |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Currency | Pa`anga (1967-date) |
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| Obverse description | The royal coat of arms of the Kingdom of Tonga occupies the central field, featuring a quartered shield bearing a star, a dove with an olive branch, three crossed swords, and a crown, supported by scrolling ornamental mantling and two Tongan national flags in saltire. A royal crown surmounted by a cross rises above the shield, flanked by laurel branches. A ribbon beneath the shield bears the national motto in Latin and Tongan script. The legend KINGDOM OF TONGA arcs along the upper periphery within a beaded border, and the date 1993 appears in the lower field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Tonga's commemorative gold program of the early 1990s was driven almost entirely by the personal enthusiasms of King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, who took an unusually direct interest in the subjects chosen for coinage. The 1993 football goalie issue belongs to a wave of sports-themed pieces timed loosely around international competition cycles, produced in limited quantities for the collector market rather than circulation.
The .5833 fineness — 14-karat gold — was a deliberate cost-control choice that kept face value and production economics aligned for a small Pacific nation with a modest mint program relying on foreign contract striking.