These notes commemorate the 2024 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), held in Apia, Samoa from 21 to 26 October 2024. They are like the preceding issues, but with a CHOGM hologram on front developed by IQ Structures using nanoDOVID, and serial numbers starting with 060, chosen because of Samoa’s recent 60th anniversary of independence.
B129 (PNL): 60 tala (US$25)
Brown, blue, red, and black. Front: English and Samoan text; CHOGM hologram; fly whisk as registration device; Samoan flag on shoreline; 60th anniversary logo; current Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Matāa’fa; coat of arms of Samoa. Back: English and Samoan text; coat of arms of Samoa; Samoan flag on pole; Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Matāa’fa Faumuina Mulinuu II and New Zealand Prime Minister Keith Holyoake lowering their countries’ flags on Independence Day on 1 June 1962; 60th annivefrsary logo; fly whisk as registration device;. Blue-to-green windowed security thread with demetalized fly whisk and 60. Watermark: Teuila flower and electrotype CBS. Printer: (De La Rue). 140 x 72 mm. Paper.
a. No date. Sig. 7: Molioo/Ainuu-Enari. Prefix ST.
1,000 notes. Intro: 21.10.2024.
Courtesy of Stane Stane (polymernotes.org) and Don Ludwig.