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50 Seniti The Queen Mother
| Issuer | National Reserve Bank of Tonga |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Thickness | 3.0 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A highly detailed, three-dimensional rendering of the Crown of the Queen Mother occupies the centre of the field, depicting the arched crown surmounted by a cross pattée atop an orb, with velvet cap and jewelled circlet rendered in fine relief. The curved legend QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER runs along the upper periphery, with the secondary legend THE CROWN OF THE QUEEN MOTHER arcing below it in a inner register. The commemorative date 1937 and the denomination 50 SENITI appear in the lower field, all enclosed within a beaded border. |
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Issued to mark the 95th birthday of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, this piece belongs to a wave of commemorative coinage Tonga produced throughout the 1990s under King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, who maintained an unusually active commemorative program relative to the country's population and economic scale. The Queen Mother's connections to Pacific Commonwealth realms made her a recurring subject across multiple island nation issues during this decade.
KM#203 is copper-nickel, not silver — worth noting given that several concurrent Tongan commemoratives were struck in both metals to the same diameter, creating collector confusion that persists in secondary market listings.