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100 Dollars - Elizabeth II Discovery Of Fiji
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Fiji |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Central depiction of the three-masted sailing ship HMS Resolution under full sail, shown in profile on a stylised sea, with a map of the Fiji Islands to the upper left. An oval portrait medallion of Captain James Cook is positioned to the right of the ship. Above the ship's name in script lettering reads 'The Resolution' with the dates 1728-1778 beneath. The arc legend DISCOVERY OF FIJI · JAMES COOK runs along the upper periphery, and the denomination 100 DOLLARS appears along the lower border. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Fiji's 1874 cession to Britain — and the colonial framing of European "discovery" that followed — was itself a contested political act: Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau, who signed the deed of cession, led a confederacy that had already repelled multiple European annexation attempts. The 1993 issue falls within a wave of Pacific commemoratives produced for collector export rather than domestic circulation, a revenue strategy the Reserve Bank leaned on heavily through the 1990s.