Catalog
1 Dollar Dragon Boat Racing; colourized
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Fiji |
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| Year | 2023 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Chinese |
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| Reverse lettering | 勇往直前 |
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Dragon boat racing traces its origins to ancient southern China, where ritual paddling competitions were tied to the Duanwu Festival and the legend of the poet Qu Yuan, who drowned himself in 278 BC in protest of political corruption. The sport arrived in Fiji through the country's substantial Indo-Fijian and Chinese-Fijian communities, and has grown into a genuine fixture on the Suva waterfront calendar.
KM#1102.1 distinguishes this colourized variant from at least one parallel issue in the series.