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50 Seniti - Tāufaʻahau Tupou IV Queen Mother with Baby Princess Elizabeth
| Issuer | Tonga |
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| Year | 1985 |
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| Composition | Copper-nickel |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing truncated bust of King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV in low relief, depicted wearing a formal collared garment. The circumferential legend reads · TAUFA'AHAU TUPOU IV · TONGA · with the date 1985 displayed in the exergue, flanked by two raised dots. The portrait is rendered in a bold, naturalistic style filling the central field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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This piece was struck as part of Tonga's commemorative program marking the birth of Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Crown Prince Tupou. Tonga's royal family has long used coinage as a direct instrument of dynastic announcement — a tradition dating to the reign of Tāufaʻahau Tupou IV, who presided over an unusually prolific commemorative minting program throughout the 1970s and 1980s, issuing coins for events that most monarchies would mark only with postage stamps.
KM#101 is among the less widely distributed pieces from this run, with circulation largely confined to the domestic market and collector sets exported through the Pacific island numismatic trade channels active in the mid-1980s.