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Samoa (Western) banknotes
Samoa paper money catalog and Samoan currency history

• A brief monetary history:
  • German currency, till 1914
  • Western Samoa Pound = 20 Shillings = 240 Pence, till 1967
  • Tala = (1/2 Pound) =100 Sene, from 1967

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Pick #	Date
		State (New Zealand mandate 1914-1962, German Colony 1899-1914)
1-2	(1920)	10 shillings, 1 pound
7-9A	1920-1959	10 shillings, 1, 1, 5, 5 pounds
10-12	1960-61	10 shillings, 1, 5 pounds; provisinal overprint
13-15	(1963)	10 shillings, 1, 5 pounds
16-18	(1967)	1, 2, 10 Tala
19-23	(1980)	1, 2, 5, 10, 20 Tala
25-30	(1985)	2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 Tala
31	(1990)	2 Tala; commemorative issue "Jubilee of the Head of State
32-35	(2003)	2, 5, 10, 20 Tala
33-37	(2005)	5, 10, 20, 50, 100 Tala; 2x signatures
38-42	2008	5, 10, 20, 50, 100 Tala
43-	(2012)	20, 50, 100 Tala
44	2012	50 Tala; commemorative "50 Anniversary of Independence"
45	2019	10 Tala; commemorative "XVI Pacific Games"