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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Vostok
| Issuer | Fiji |
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| Year | 2002 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Highly detailed depiction of the Russian sloop-of-war Vostok under full sail, shown in three-quarter view sailing to the right across stylized waves, with all sails billowing and rigging finely rendered. The vessel's elaborately carved hull and gun ports are prominently depicted. The ship's name VOSTOK appears in the upper left field, and the denomination $10 is inscribed along the lower exergual area. |
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Vostok Station, the Russian Antarctic research base, recorded the lowest naturally occurring air temperature ever measured on Earth's surface — −89.2°C in July 1983. Fiji issued this piece as part of a broader wave of Pacific-nation commemoratives produced for the international collector market in the early 2000s, a practice driven almost entirely by licensing revenue rather than domestic demand. Very few of these coins ever circulated in Fiji.