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10 Tālā
| Issuer | Central Bank of Western Samoa |
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| Year | 1967-2020 |
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| Currency | Tala (1967-date) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries a central vignette of the National Coat of Arms of Samoa flanked by the national flag, with a distant view of the Samoan coastline and a traditional kava bowl rendered in intaglio. Guilloche underprints frame the design, with denomination numerals and bilingual inscriptions in Samoan and English arranged along the upper and lower margins. The issuing authority title appears in both languages across the face of the note. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Bradbury Wilkinson printed this note at their New Malden works, which closed in 1990 when the firm was absorbed into American Bank Note Company's international operations — meaning the 2020 reprint bearing the "S" prefix serial was produced elsewhere, not by BW at all. The P#18 designation spans that entire transition, making the two signature varieties far more distinct than the shared catalog number implies.
Western Samoa became simply Samoa by constitutional amendment in 1997, so notes from the later circulation period were issued by an institution whose country had legally changed its name — yet the bank title on this series remained unchanged throughout.