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| Issuer | Fiji |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1969-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | FIJI 2016 Rerevaka na Kalou ka doka na Tui 10 DOLLARS |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Additional information |
Fiji's licensing of foreign wildlife themes for silver bullion issues accelerated sharply after 2010, largely driven by demand from Asian collector markets — particularly Singapore and Hong Kong — where the tiger carries deep cultural weight. The Malayan tiger, listed as critically endangered by the IUCN with fewer than 200 individuals estimated in the wild by the mid-2010s, gave the series an conservation angle that appealed to both thematic and bullion buyers simultaneously.
The two-troy-ounce format was a deliberate commercial choice to differentiate from the dominant one-ounce market.