Catalog
5 Tālā
| Issuer | Central Bank of Samoa |
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| Year | 2002-2005 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries a vignette of a child at study in the left field, set against a central panoramic view of the Samoan coastline. The National Flag of Samoa appears in the upper register, with bilingual Samoan and English inscriptions framing the composition. Fine guilloche underprinting in the De La Rue tradition fills the background field. |
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| Obverse lettering | FALETUPE TUTOTONU O SAMOA TUPE FA`ATAGAINA-MALO O SAMOA LEGAL TENDER IN SAMOA LIMA TĀLĀ FIVE TĀLĀ CENTRAL BANK OF SAMOA |
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Samoa's switch from the earlier tālā series in the early 2000s came with a modest but deliberate modernization of the note program, with De La Rue retained as printer — a relationship stretching back through the islands' earlier monetary arrangements under the Bank of Western Samoa. The watermark remains the primary security provision here, which by 2002 was already well behind regional standards; the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's contemporaneous issues carried far more sophisticated protection.
Pick 33 is the last of the purely cotton-paper issues before polymer entered Samoan circulation.