Plain Script: Latin Lettering: 1 T.O.999 AG Unabridged legend: Troy Ounce
Period
Notice
Reference(s)
Obverse description
Bust of Tui-Manuʻa Elisara wearing traditional necklace and tapa cloth shoulder adornments, facing right. Stylized tree branches in background to the left and right.
Obverse lettering
TUI-MANU`A ELISARA
circa 1905
Obverse script
Latin
Reverse description
Samoan taupou (ceremonial village maiden) seated front-facing in traditional dress with kava bowl in front, beneath an ornate arched frame. Flanked by two chiefly figures in customary attire, the figure to the right holding a staff. Three five-pointed stars above representing the islands of Taʻū, Ofu, and Olosega, which make up the Manuʻa Islands. Scroll inscribed “The Eastern Navigator Islands 1872” below. Dates “1904 – 2004” at the bottom.
Reverse lettering
MANU`A-TELE 1904-2004 CENTENNIAL
the
Eastern
Navigator
Islands
1872