Catalog
10 Dollars
| Issuer | Central Monetary Authority of Fiji |
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| Year | 1980-1986 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a group of traditional Fijian warriors performing a ceremonial war dance, holding spears and dressed in customary attire, with thatched Fijian bures in the background. The denomination '10' appears in engraved guilloche work at left and right, with the issuer's emblem at left. Denomination in numerals and words appears at top and bottom respectively. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Central Monetary Authority of Fiji was a transitional institution, established in 1973 after Fiji left the sterling area and needed independent monetary management, but not yet a full central bank — that came only with the Reserve Bank of Fiji Act of 1983, which folded the CMA into the new Reserve Bank. Notes issued under the CMA name continued circulating through the mid-1980s, creating the overlap that explains this series' extended date range.
Thomas De La Rue had printed Fijian currency since the colonial period, and the relationship carried through without interruption into independence.