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100 Tālā - Tanumafili II U.S. Bicentennial
| Issuer | Western Samoa |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Value | 100 Tala |
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| Obverse lettering | 1962 INDEPENDENCE 1976 MALIETOA TANUMAFILI II |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued to mark the American Bicentennial, this piece reflects Western Samoa's close postwar ties with the United States — a relationship shaped in part by the territory's strategic position in the Pacific and American administrative interests in neighboring American Samoa. Tanumafili II, who co-headed state from 1962 and would eventually rule alone until his death in 2007, lent his name to a series of commemorative gold issues in the 1970s largely aimed at the collector market rather than circulation.
Fr#1 designation confirms this as the first — and only — gold type in Friedberg's Western Samoa listings.