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5 Pa'anga - Taufa'ahua
| Issuer | National Reserve Bank of Tonga |
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| Year | 1995 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV in military dress uniform with decorations, set within an elaborate guilloche vignette at centre-right, against a purple and lilac underprint. The royal arms of Tonga appear at upper right, flanked by foliate ornaments, while a large circular guilloche rosette occupies the left field. Two authorising signatures appear below the portrait, accompanied by their respective Tongan-language title inscriptions. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Ha'amonga 'a Maui trilithon stone gateway, a massive ancient coral limestone arch set amid tropical vegetation with a small figure standing beside it for scale. A decorative Tongan tapa-cloth pattern border runs along the lower margin, with a numeral 5 and denomination text at lower right. A circular watermark window occupies the upper right corner. |
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Pick 33 exists in three signature combinations, reflecting the ministerial and gubernatorial turnover at the National Reserve Bank through the late 1990s and into the 2000s. The sequence runs from Baron Vaea von Houma — who served as Prime Minister — paired with two successive bank governors, before Prince Ulukalala Lavaka Ata took over as Prime Minister following Vaea's retirement in 2000. Signature varieties on Pacific issues are frequently undervalued relative to their actual scarcity, and the Ulukalala–'Utoikamanu pairing is the least commonly encountered of the three.