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2 Pa'anga - Tāufaʻahau Tupou IV Golden Wedding
| Issuer | National Reserve Bank of Tonga |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Thickness | 3 mm |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV and his wife Halaevalu Mata'aho were married in 1947, making this issue part of a wave of Pacific monarchy commemoratives that flooded the collector market through the 1990s. Tonga's commemorative program during this decade was prolific to the point of exhaustion — the National Reserve Bank issued dozens of silver pieces annually, most destined for overseas coin dealers rather than domestic circulation.
Tupou IV himself died in 2006, the last king of Tonga before constitutional reforms stripped the monarchy of most governing authority.