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10 Dollars Mandala Art 'Moresque'
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Fiji |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Weight | 93.3 g |
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| Obverse description | The arms of Fiji are depicted centrally in high relief, supported by two Fijian warriors in traditional dress — one holding a spear at left, the other bearing a club at right. The shield features a British lion passant in the chief, with sugarcane, a coconut palm, a dove, and a bunch of bananas in the quartered lower field, surmounted by a sailing vessel. A scroll below the shield bears the national motto in the Fijian language. The legend FIJI 2018 arcs along the upper field, with 3oz at left and Ag 999 at right in the middle field, and the denomination 10 DOLLARS inscribed along the lower exergue. |
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| Edge | Lettered (serial number in format xxx/500) |
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Fiji has used commemorative silver issues as a revenue vehicle since the 1970s, and by the 2010s the Reserve Bank was licensing designs through the Coin Invest Trust network — this piece is part of that arrangement, not a domestic artistic commission. The Moresque pattern draws from Islamic geometric ornamental tradition, a design vocabulary that spread through Mediterranean Europe via Moorish Iberia and became a recurring motif in European decorative arts from the 15th century onward.
The embedded Swarovski crystal is a production feature shared across CIT's broader Mandala Art series, each release using a different colorway and pattern vocabulary.