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50 Seniti - Tāufaʻahau Tupou IV Wedding Day Portrait of the Queen Mother
| Issuer | Tonga |
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| Year | 1985 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Wedding day portrait of King George V and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, depicted together in a commemorative composition befitting the occasion. The upper circular legend reads · QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER ·, while the denomination 50 SENITI is inscribed in the lower portion of the field. |
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Tonga issued this piece in 1985 to mark the wedding of Crown Prince Tupouto'a, eldest son of King Tāufaʻahau Tupou IV. The Queen Mother depicted is Queen Halaevalu Mata'aho, who had herself been crowned alongside Tupou IV at his 1967 coronation — an event that generated one of the Pacific's most ambitious commemorative coin programs of the twentieth century.
The Tongan commemorative series of the 1980s was struck at the Pobjoy Mint in Surrey, which held the contract for much of the kingdom's coinage during this period.