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100 Tala - Tanumafili II IX Commonwealth Games
| Issuer | Samoa |
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| Year | 1978 |
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| Value | 100 Tala |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The 1978 Edmonton Commonwealth Games were the first Games held in Canada, and Samoa was among the smaller Pacific nations issuing commemorative gold to mark the occasion. These participant-nation issues were typically produced in limited quantities for the collector market rather than circulation, funded partly through agreements with foreign minting houses rather than domestic facilities — Samoa had no mint of its own.
Tanumafili II held the position of O le Ao o le Malo, a role created at independence in 1962 that he would occupy until his death in 2007, making him one of the longest-serving heads of state of the twentieth century.