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Samoa
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2 Tala, 1985
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Front: Woodcarver
Back: Hut with palms on small island
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5 Tala, 1985
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Front: Child writing
Back: Small port city
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10 Tala, 1985
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Front: Man picking bananas
Back: Shoreline landscape
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20 Tala, 1985
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2 Tala, 1990 Polymer
Commemorates Golden Jubilee of Service of the
Head of State
Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II
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Front: Malietoa Tanumafili II (1913-), head of state of Samoa
He holds this position for life. Upon Samoa's independence in 1962, He was
joint head of state with Tupua Tamasese. When the latter died in 1963, he
became sole head of state. As of August 2005, Malietoa Tanumafili is the
third-longest serving head of state in the world, after the King of Thailand
and Queen Elizabeth II.
Back: Family scene
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Samoa, located in the Pacific Ocean 1600 miles northeast of New Zealand,
is formerly German Samoa. A Dutch navigator discovered the Samoan group of islands
in 1772. Great Britain, United States and Germany established consular
representation there in the mid 1800s. The three powers declared Samoa neutral
and established a tripartite protectorate over the islands in 1889. An 1899
agreement ceded the eastern group of the islands (American Samoa) to the United
States and the other islands (Western Samoa) to Germany. New Zealand occupied
Western Samoa at the start of WWI and administered the islands until independence
in 1962. Renamed Samoa in 1997. For a more detailed
country profile, see CIA World Factbook on Samoa.
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