Posted 06/14/2015 6:51 pm
Sorry, but not really. Tonga, like all other Pacific Island countries, is too small to have its own mint, so they contract out their coinage issue. I would assume that, like New Zealand, they would go with whichever mint happened to offer the cheapest contract at the time. Royal Mint, Royal Australian Mint, Royal Canadian Mint and Singapore Mint would all be my best guesses for circulation coins for Tonga in the 1980s; Royal Mint would be at the top of my guess list, simply because of their experience in making equilaterally-curved heptagons. FOr NCLT like the Christmas coins, Pobjoy is also be a contender and perhaps most likely, given the other Christmas coins they have issued; I was unaware that they have in the past used Tonga as a flag-of-convenience, but Wikipedia says they have.
Just thought I'd clarify the record here, in case anyone was wondering: Redonda isn't a "real country", and their coins are not "real coins". The coins are fantasy coins and probably issued without the knowledge or consent of any of the claimants to the "kingdom of Redonda". That they are issued without the knowledge or consent of anyone actually living on Redonda goes without saying, since Redonda is an uninhabited barren rock, population zero.
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...why not pick up 50 cent christmas coins from Redonda also...
...why not pick up 50 cent christmas coins from Redonda also...
Just thought I'd clarify the record here, in case anyone was wondering: Redonda isn't a "real country", and their coins are not "real coins". The coins are fantasy coins and probably issued without the knowledge or consent of any of the claimants to the "kingdom of Redonda". That they are issued without the knowledge or consent of anyone actually living on Redonda goes without saying, since Redonda is an uninhabited barren rock, population zero.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
