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5 Tala - Elizabeth II HMS Pandora
| Issuer | Tokelau |
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| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Third-portrait effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, diademed and wearing a pearl necklace and drop earring, her hair elaborately styled in flowing waves. The portrait, modelled by Raphael David Maklouf, is rendered in high relief against a deeply mirrored proof field. The engraver's initials RDM appear below the truncation. The legend TOKELAU · 1993 arcs around the upper periphery, flanked by a decorative beaded border. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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HMS Pandora was dispatched in 1790 specifically to hunt down the Bounty mutineers, and her captain Edward Edwards proved so brutal in his treatment of captured men — confining them in a makeshift cage on deck dubbed "Pandora's Box" — that he was later court-martialled, though ultimately acquitted. The ship never made it home: she struck a reef on the Great Barrier Reef in August 1791, killing 31 crew and four of the prisoners still locked in the cage.
Tokelau's connection to the Bounty story runs through Pitcairn and broader Polynesian maritime history rather than any direct landfall by Pandora herself.