The Save the Children Fund celebrated its 70th anniversary in 1989, and Fiji was among several Commonwealth nations that issued commemorative silver pieces tied to the organization's fundraising campaigns in the years immediately following. These collector-targeted issues were struck by the Royal Mint on contract and were never intended for circulation — a common arrangement for Pacific island nations whose domestic minting capacity was nonexistent.
The Save the Children Fund celebrated its 70th anniversary in 1989, and Fiji was among several Commonwealth nations that issued commemorative silver pieces tied to the organization's fundraising campaigns in the years immediately following. These collector-targeted issues were struck by the Royal Mint on contract and were never intended for circulation — a common arrangement for Pacific island nations whose domestic minting capacity was nonexistent.