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100 Tala - Tanumafili II RA Expeditions
| Issuer | Central Bank of Samoa |
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| Year | 1991 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | SAMOA I SISIFO FAAVAE I LE ATUA SAMOA $100 |
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This issue commemorates the Royal Automobile Club expeditions, a subject unusual enough in Pacific numismatics that it likely reflects a licensing arrangement between the Samoan government and an external commemorative coin producer — a common revenue mechanism for small island states in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Tanumafili II, who held office from 1963 until his death in 2007, lent his name to dozens of such issues with limited domestic circulation relevance.
The RA connection almost certainly references overland exploration programs rather than motorsport, though the precise expedition commemorated is not documented in standard references beyond KM#84.