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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Save the Whales
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Fiji |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central cameo-finish field depicts a naturalistic scene of a whale swimming amid underwater flora and fauna, rendered in high relief against a frosted, pearl-like background suggestive of the ocean depths. Small fish or bubbles appear above the whale, enhancing the marine environment. The date 2002 is inscribed in the lower central field. The surrounding raised border carries the arc legend SAVE THE WHALES above and the denomination 10 DOLLARS below, separated from the central design by a polished raised rim. |
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Fiji's "Save the Whales" series sat within a broader wave of Pacific island conservation-themed silver issues that flooded the collector market in the late 1990s and early 2000s, most produced under licensing arrangements with overseas minting houses rather than struck domestically. The Reserve Bank of Fiji issued these almost exclusively as legal tender bullion collectibles — never intended for circulation, struck to order for the numismatic trade.
KM#101 was produced at a moment when humpback and sperm whale populations in the South Pacific remained under active international protection debate, with the IWC moratorium on commercial whaling still contested by Japan and Norway.