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10 Dollars
| Issuer | Government of Fiji |
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| Year | 1969 |
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| Size | 159 × 76 mm |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II at left, with the Fijian Coat of Arms at centre, all set against a background of traditional Fijian decorative patterns rendered in guilloche underprint. The denomination is expressed in both words and figures, with two manuscript signatures of authorised officials below the central device. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Fiji's transition from the pound to the decimal dollar system took effect on 13 January 1969, and this note belongs to that inaugural decimal issue — the first time a "dollar" denomination had appeared on Fijian government paper. The changeover required entirely new printing plates rather than redenominated overprints, which De La Rue executed from London under a standing contract that had supplied Fijian currency for decades.
The series was short-lived. Elizabeth II's cypher as issuing authority was superseded when the Reserve Bank of Fiji assumed note-issuing responsibility in 1974, making the entire 1969 government issue a single-run series with no reprints.