5 Seniti - Taufa'ahau Tupou IV FAO

Tonga's participation in the FAO coinage program of the 1970s placed the kingdom among dozens of developing nations that issued circulating currency explicitly tied to agricultural development messaging — a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization initiative that ran from the late 1960s through the 1980s and produced some of the most thematically specific coins of the postwar era. Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, who reigned from 1965 until his death in 2006, was an active proponent of economic modernization, and Tonga's alignment with FAO programming fit that broader policy direction.