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10 Dollars Gladiatrix, Silver Bullion
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Fiji |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | The central field displays the full coat of arms of Fiji, flanked by two traditional Fijian warrior supporters, the dexter holding a spear and the sinister holding a fan of palm fronds, with the national motto inscribed on a ribbon below the shield reading 'Rerevaka na Kalou ka doka na Tui'. The country name 'FIJI' and date '2013' are inscribed in an arc along the upper periphery within a beaded border. The denomination '10 DOLLARS' is inscribed in bold letters along the lower periphery, also within the beaded border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Fiji has issued bullion-adjacent silver rounds under nominal face values since the early 2000s, a practice common among smaller Pacific island nations whose minting agreements with foreign facilities — in this case almost certainly the Perth Mint or a Central European house — generate licensing revenue rather than circulating coinage. The KM#480 attribution places it within a crowded period of Fijian numismatic licensing, when the Reserve Bank authorized dozens of themed issues annually.
The gladiatrix — a female gladiator — was a genuine, if rare, phenomenon in Roman arenas, documented in sources including Juvenal's Satires and confirmed archaeologically by a 1st–2nd century AD bronze statuette found at Halicarnassus. Actual gladiatrices were banned by senatorial decree in 200 AD under Septimius Severus.