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½ Dollar Santa Claus Sleigh
| Issuer | Fiji |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1969-date) |
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| Obverse description | The central copper-nickel core displays the full Coat of Arms of Fiji, featuring a quartered shield supported by two Fijian warriors in traditional dress, one holding a spear and the other a war club; a British lion passant occupies the chief of the shield, with a sailing vessel, sugarcane, a coconut palm, a dove, and a bunch of bananas in the quarters below. A scroll beneath the shield bears the national motto in Fijian. The copper-nickel outer ring carries the legend 'FIJI 2021' along the upper arc and the denomination 'HALF DOLLAR' along the lower arc, separated from the core by a dark-tinted plastic middle ring. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Fiji has served as a convenient issuing authority for novelty collector pieces since the 1990s, its monetary laws permitting third-party minting arrangements that most sovereign mints would not entertain. This piece is a product of that arrangement — legal tender in name, but designed entirely for the gift and collector market rather than any circulating monetary purpose.
The plastic ring insert is the technical point of interest here: embedding non-metallic components into a coin planchet requires precision tolerancing to prevent delamination, a problem that plagued early trimetallic and bimetallic issues from several European mints in the 1990s.