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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Endangered Wildlife
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Fiji |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the George IV State Diadem, pearl drop earrings, and a pearl necklace, after the portrait by Raphael Maklouf. The legend ELIZABETH II is inscribed along the left periphery, with FIJI and the date 1995 arranged along the right periphery. The designer's initials RDM appear on the truncation of the bust. The mirrored proof field contrasts sharply with the finely detailed relief of the portrait. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II FIJI 1995 |
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Fiji's endangered wildlife coin program of the mid-1990s was part of a broader Pacific-region trend in which small island nations leveraged their sovereign minting rights to generate foreign exchange through collector coinage — the coins were never intended to circulate and were sold primarily to overseas buyers through numismatic distributors. The Reserve Bank of Fiji issued several denominations in this series across multiple years, with the $10 face value placing this piece firmly in the commemorative-only category.
KM#74 is one of a cluster of silver issues from this period where actual mintage figures were rarely disclosed publicly by the Reserve Bank.