Fiji's 1976 silver proof dollar was struck to coincide with the nation's first decade of independence from Britain, achieved in October 1970. The Reserve Bank had by this point established a modest but consistent program of proof issues aimed squarely at the international collector market, a revenue strategy common among newly independent Pacific and Caribbean states during the 1970s.
The 2nd portrait of Elizabeth II, by Arnold Machin, had entered circulation coinage in 1968 and remained in use on Fijian issues until the mid-1980s.
Fiji's 1976 silver proof dollar was struck to coincide with the nation's first decade of independence from Britain, achieved in October 1970. The Reserve Bank had by this point established a modest but consistent program of proof issues aimed squarely at the international collector market, a revenue strategy common among newly independent Pacific and Caribbean states during the 1970s.
The 2nd portrait of Elizabeth II, by Arnold Machin, had entered circulation coinage in 1968 and remained in use on Fijian issues until the mid-1980s.