1 Shilling - Elizabeth II 1st portrait

Fiji's shilling coinage in this period sat in an awkward administrative position — the islands were a British Crown Colony under the Colonial Office, yet monetary policy ran through the Board of Commissioners of Currency rather than directly through London. The 1st portrait by Mary Gillick, used here, was already being phased out on British domestic coinage by the early 1960s while Fiji continued striking it through 1965, the year before decimal planning began in earnest for the territory.