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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Soft Coral Capital of the World
| Issuer | Fiji |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1969-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a detailed scene of the Fijian soft coral industry, showing multiple figures engaged in harvesting and processing coral, with underwater marine elements including coral formations visible in the left field. To the upper right, the fineness mark '925 SILVER' appears, with the denomination '$2' in large relief to the right. The curved lower legend reads 'FIJI - SOFT CORAL CAPITAL OF THE WORLD' along the bottom arc of the annular sector flan. |
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Fiji's claim to the "Soft Coral Capital of the World" title is rooted in the Bligh Waters and the Koro Sea, where reef surveys conducted in the 1990s recorded soft coral diversity and density that genuinely challenged anything documented elsewhere in the Indo-Pacific. The designation wasn't marketing — it emerged from scientific survey work that preceded this issue.
KM#78 belongs to a wave of large-format silver commemoratives Fiji issued through the late 1990s, most produced for collector export rather than domestic use. Virtually none circulated.