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1 Dollar John F. Kennedy Moon Speech
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Fiji |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Thickness | 3 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a raised effigy of President John F. Kennedy standing at a podium bearing the colored Presidential Seal of the United States, rendered in blue, gold, and yellow enamel. Kennedy is shown in three-quarter bust view addressing an audience, with a microphone visible to his left. A ring of small five-pointed stars surrounds the central design within the inner border. The curved legend WE CHOOSE TO GO TO THE MOON arcs along the upper periphery, while the date SEPTEMBER 12, 1962 is inscribed along the lower border, commemorating the famous Rice University speech. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Fiji has issued commemorative dollars under Reserve Bank authority since the 1970s, and the series has leaned heavily on international figures and events with no particular connection to the islands. This piece marks the 1961 Rice University address in which Kennedy committed the United States to a lunar landing before the decade's end — a speech delivered less than two years before his assassination, and six years before NASA lost three astronauts in the Apollo 1 launchpad fire that nearly ended the program entirely.