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| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Fiji |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II 1 DOLLAR FIJI 2012 |
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Fiji has issued commemorative silver dollars under its own authority since the late twentieth century, but this piece belongs to a wave of licensed numismatic products that proliferated after 2000, where small Pacific island nations — Fiji, Niue, Palau — effectively leased their minting authority to European producers, primarily the Czech firm Česká mincovna and the Polish Mint, to produce collector coins with no meaningful local circulation. The Tutankhamun subject traces to the centenary interest surrounding Howard Carter's 1922 discovery of KV62 in the Valley of the Kings.