Catalog
2 Tālā Golden Jubilee
| Issuer | Central Bank of Samoa |
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| Year | 1990-2009 |
| Type | Commemorative banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | LUA TALA FALETUPE TUTOTONU O SAMOA TWO TALA LEGAL TENDER IN WESTERN SAMOA CENTRAL BANK OF SAMOA (Translation: Two Tala Central Bank of Samoa) |
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| Reverse lettering | FALETUPE TUTOTONU O SAMOA CENTRAL BANK OF SAMOA (Translation: Central Bank of Samoa) |
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Samoa's adoption of polymer for this 2 Tālā note came through Note Printing Australia, which had been aggressively expanding its Guardian polymer platform across Pacific island nations through the 1990s. The "Golden Jubilee" title refers to the 50th anniversary of Samoan independence — or more precisely, the anniversary of the Samoan national movement — and the denomination was chosen as a low-value commemorative that could circulate ordinarily while carrying the designation.
The see-through window, a defining feature of the Guardian substrate, was used here without the additional optically variable device found on higher-denomination Pacific polymer issues of the same period. Functional, not elaborate.