Fiji has served as a convenient legal-tender vehicle for third-party licensed collectibles since the 2000s, with the Reserve Bank lending its issuing authority to series that have no organic connection to Fijian monetary history. This piece is part of a broader wave of gaming-franchise bullion issues that emerged after Capcom began aggressively licensing Street Fighter IP for collectible markets in the late 2010s — Ken Masters among the first characters cleared for individual coin releases.
KM#963 was struck by the New Zealand Mint under licensing arrangements, not by any Fijian facility.
Fiji has served as a convenient legal-tender vehicle for third-party licensed collectibles since the 2000s, with the Reserve Bank lending its issuing authority to series that have no organic connection to Fijian monetary history. This piece is part of a broader wave of gaming-franchise bullion issues that emerged after Capcom began aggressively licensing Street Fighter IP for collectible markets in the late 2010s — Ken Masters among the first characters cleared for individual coin releases.
KM#963 was struck by the New Zealand Mint under licensing arrangements, not by any Fijian facility.