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1000 Tālā - Tanumafili II Royal Wedding
| Issuer | Samoa |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Value | 1000 Tala |
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| Obverse lettering | SAMOA I SISIFO $ 1000 |
| Reverse description | Conjoined busts of H.R.H. Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer facing left, with the Prince depicted in the foreground and Lady Diana slightly behind. The engraver's initials 'ER' appear in the lower field to the right of the busts. The curved legend 'WEDDING OF H.R.H. PRINCE CHARLES' arcs around the upper periphery, and the date '1981' is inscribed in the lower exergue, flanked by two raised dots. |
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Issued to mark the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer in July 1981, this piece is one of dozens of gold commemoratives produced by Pacific and Caribbean nations that year — many of which had no meaningful economic or political connection to the British royal family. Samoa was a Commonwealth realm at the time under Head of State Malietoa Tanumafili II, which at least provides a nominal constitutional link.
The 31.103g weight puts this squarely in the one-troy-ounce category, a deliberate choice for the bullion-adjacent commemorative market of the early 1980s.