Catalog
10 Dollars - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Fiji |
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| Year | 1989 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in violet, light blue, and orange tones, the obverse carries a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II at right, the Fijian coat of arms at centre, and a traditional artifact motif to the right. The face value and legal tender inscription are rendered in letterpress across the lower portion, with guilloche underprint patterns filling the field. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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Fiji's 1989 series marked a consolidation of the Reserve Bank's post-independence note designs, with Thomas De La Rue producing a family of issues that would remain in circulation well into the 1990s. The P#92 sits within a broader Elizabeth II series that Fiji maintained long after many Commonwealth peers had moved to republican currency — a deliberate political choice reflecting the country's constitutional status at the time, though the 1987 coups under Rabuka had already set in motion a republican trajectory that would eventually displace the monarch from Fijian notes entirely.
De La Rue's security thread on this issue is a plain embedded type, predating the windowed and demetallized threads the printer introduced more widely in subsequent decades.