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100 Tala - Tanumafili II Roosevelt
| Issuer | Samoa |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Composition | Gold (.917) |
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| Obverse lettering | SAMOA I SISIFO FAAVAE I LE ATUA SAMOA $100 (Translation: Western Samoa God be the Foundation of Samoa) |
| Reverse description | A three-quarter facing portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt seated in his wheelchair, rendered in high relief against a plain field. The legend PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT curves along the upper periphery, while the abbreviation IYDP (International Year of Disabled Persons) and the date 1981 appear in the lower field, accompanied by the official IYDP logo commemorating the United Nations designation. |
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Struck to mark the visit of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Samoa in 1944 — the only sitting American president to visit the territory — this commemorative was issued nearly four decades after the event itself, part of a broader Pacific-nation commemorative program that proliferated in the late 1970s and early 1980s as smaller issuers leveraged collector demand. Malietoa Tanumafili II, who co-signed the issue as head of state, was himself a young man during Roosevelt's wartime Pacific tour and would go on to reign until 2007.