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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Ferdinand Magellan
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Fiji |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1969-date) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, rendered in the fourth definitive portrait style as modelled by Ian Rank-Broadley. The truncated bust is depicted with fine detail in the hair and diadem. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the upper left periphery, with FIJI to the upper right, and the date 2009 positioned at the lower right, all within a beaded border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued to mark the 2019 quincentenary lead-up programming around Magellan's 1519–1522 circumnavigation, Fiji's connection to the voyage is largely geographic — the archipelago lies along the western Pacific corridor crossed by the expedition's survivors under Elcano after Magellan himself was killed in the Philippines in April 1521. Gold-plated base metal issues of this type were produced for the collector and souvenir market, not circulation.