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½ Hau - Taufa’ahau Tupou IV Coronation

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Issuer Tonga
Król Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV (1965-2006)
Type Non-circulating coins
Year 1967
Value ½ Hau
50 TOP = USD 21
Currency Pa'anga (1967-date)
Composition Ruten plated pallad (490 grains Pd + 10 grains Ru)
Weight 32.3995 g
Diameter 34 mm
Thickness 3.3 mm
Shape Okrągły
Technique Frezowana
Issued 4 July 1967
Number
N#
175546
References KM# 23
Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes).

Commemorative issue

Koronacja Taufa'ahau Tupou IVAutomatically translated

Obverse

Głowa Taufa'ahau Tupou IV zwrócona w prawo, małe korony wokół obramowania.Automatically translated

Script: łaciński

Lettering:
CORONATION 4TH JULY 1967
TAUFA'AHAU TUPOU IV

Reverse

Broń krajowaAutomatically translated

Script: łaciński

Lettering:
HALF HAU
TONGA

Edge

(en) Plain with incuse lettering – readable when reverse face is up

Script: łaciński

Lettering: HISTORICALLY THE FIRST PALLADIUM COINAGE

½ Hau - Taufa’ahau Tupou IV (Coronation) -  obverse

Mint

Pobjoy Mint, Surrey, United Kingdom (1965-2023)

Comments

(en)

Coins also contain 2% of 20 parts of 1000 in Ruthenium and like a coating/plating metal as the coins have a chromy finish rather than white metally palladium one.

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC
1967  1 650

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