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100 Pa'anga - Taufa'ahau Tupou IV High Jumper
| Issuer | Tonga |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Composition | Gold (.5833) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | OLYMPIC GAMES 1996 100 PA`ANGA |
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Issued to mark Taufa'ahau Tupou IV's participation in the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, where he competed in the high jump — a fact that remains one of the more unlikely athletic footnotes attached to any reigning monarch. By 1994, when this coin was struck, Tupou IV was already recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as the world's heaviest monarch, making the commemorative choice either an act of nostalgia or deliberate irony on the part of the Tongan treasury.