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5 Pa'anga
| Issuer | National Reserve Bank of Tonga |
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| Year | 2015 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Purple and violet intaglio-printed note with a portrait of King Tupou VI at right, set against a guilloche underprint. The Royal Coat of Arms appears at lower right, while a 1.4 mm windowed security thread with demetalized NRBT text runs vertically through the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | NATIONAL RESERVE BANK OF TONGA PA`ANGA `E NIMA THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER IN TONGA |
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Thomas De La Rue has printed Tongan currency since the kingdom's first modern banknotes, making this a long-standing production relationship rather than a one-off contract. The National Reserve Bank of Tonga was established in 1989, separating central banking functions from the Bank of Tonga, and notes issued under its authority carry that institutional distinction.
The security specification here — watermark and thread only — is relatively spare for a mid-denomination note printed in this period, when De La Rue was actively promoting more complex substrate and feature packages to Pacific island clients.