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5 Pa'anga
| Issuer | National Reserve Bank of Tonga |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | KINGDOM OF TONGA 5 PA`ANGA `E NIMA PANGIKE PULE FAKAFONUA `O TONGA (Translation: Kingdom of Tonga Five Pa`anga National Reserve Bank of Tonga) |
| Reverse description | Purple and violet on a multicolour underprint. The central vignette presents a perspective view of the ancient royal burial mounds (ʻLangi') near Muʻa on Tongatapu, rendered in fine intaglio line work. To the right, a large radiating sunburst guilloche surrounds a circular medallion inscribed 'OKU 'IHE 'OTUA 'A LOCA', with palm trees and further archaeological structures visible in the background; a guilloche rosette with the denomination numeral '$5' appears at lower left. |
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Thomas De La Rue has printed Tongan currency since the kingdom's first modern banknotes, making this a long-standing production relationship rather than a one-off contract. The National Reserve Bank of Tonga was established in 1989, separating central banking functions from the Bank of Tonga, and notes issued under its authority carry that institutional distinction.
The security specification here — watermark and thread only — is relatively spare for a mid-denomination note printed in this period, when De La Rue was actively promoting more complex substrate and feature packages to Pacific island clients.