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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Fiji |
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| Year | 2002 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Purple, violet and brown tones over a multicolour underprint, with a mature portrait of Queen Elizabeth II at right and the national arms at upper right. A novel serial number appears on the face, accompanied by a vignette of the Kikqu (orange-breasted Myzomela) at lower left. Fine guilloche patterning fills the background field. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a traditional Fijian outrigger canoe with a thatched shelter, rendered against a multicolour underprint. The design incorporates a watermark area bearing a profile of a Fijian head, visible when held to light. |
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Fiji's 2002 banknote series arrived at an awkward political moment — the country had been suspended from the Commonwealth following the George Speight coup attempt of May 2000, which briefly held Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry hostage. The Reserve Bank pressed ahead with routine note production regardless, and De La Rue continued fulfilling the contract without interruption. Monetary continuity was one of the few stable institutions during that period.
P#106 carries only a windowed security thread and a watermark as primary security features — relatively lean for a note printed into the early 2000s, when polymer substrates and more complex foil elements were already common across Pacific island issuers.