Catalog
1 Dollar - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Central Monetary Authority of Fiji |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1969-date) |
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| Obverse description | An intaglio portrait of Queen Elizabeth II occupies the right portion of the note, rendered in dark purple tones against a multicoloured guilloche underprint. The Fijian arms appear at centre, flanked by two traditional warriors as supporters, with the motto ribbon below. To the far right, a traditional Fijian tabua (whale tooth ornament) is printed in orange as a secondary vignette. |
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| Protection description | Profile Fijian head watermark |
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The Central Monetary Authority was a transitional institution, established in 1973 to replace the Currency Board system and itself replaced by the Reserve Bank of Fiji in 1984. Notes issued under the CMA carry that brief administrative window exactly — this 1980 dollar belongs to a series that would be superseded within a few years of printing.
De La Rue's Fiji relationship was long-running, and the P#76 series used a sugarcane watermark — appropriate given that sugar revenues were the backbone of the Fijian economy at the time and the single largest factor in the colony's, then nation's, fiscal planning.