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5 Pa'anga - Taufa'ahau
| Issuer | National Reserve Bank of Tonga |
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| Year | 1992-1995 |
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| Currency | Pa`anga (1967-date) |
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| Obverse description | Purple on multicolour underprint. Portrait of King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV at right, the Royal Coat of Arms of Tonga at left, with Tongan and English inscriptions arranged around the central vignette. The design incorporates fine guilloche rosettes and a decorative border frame typical of De La Rue security printing. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in purple and olive-green, the reverse is dominated by a central vignette of the Ha'amonga 'a Maui trilithon stone arch, surrounded by tropical vegetation with a figure standing at its base for scale. The issuer's title appears in an inset panel at top centre, flanked by guilloche rosette medallions and numeral value counters at right, with the legal tender clause inscribed in a panel at the lower centre. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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