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Samoa

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2 Tala, 1985

2 tala 1985 front

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2 tala 1985 back

Back

Front: Woodcarver

Back: Hut with palms on small island

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5 Tala, 1985

5 tala 1985 front

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5 tala 1985 back

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Front: Child writing

Back: Small port city

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10 Tala, 1985

10 tala 1985 front

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Front: Man picking bananas

Back: Shoreline landscape

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20 Tala, 1985

20 tala 1985 front

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Front: Fisherman with net

Back: Round building

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2 Tala, 1990 Polymer
Commemorates Golden Jubilee of Service of the Head of State
Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II

2 tala 1990 front

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2 tala 1990 back

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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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