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20 Dollars - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Fiji |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Reverse description | A traditional Fijian bure (thatched dwelling house) occupies the central vignette, set within a finely engraved landscape composition. The denomination is rendered in numerals at the corners, with the issuing authority's name inscribed across the note. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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Bradbury Wilkinson's contract work for Pacific island currencies in the late 1980s was already winding down — the New Malden facility closed in 1990 when De La Rue absorbed the firm, making this among the last Fijian issues to come off those presses. The P#88 series was introduced following Fiji's 1987 military coups under Sitiveni Rabuka, which severed the country from the Commonwealth and prompted a constitutional overhaul — yet the Reserve Bank continued issuing notes bearing the Queen's portrait through the transitional period, an administrative pragmatism that outlasted the political rupture.
Security thread placement on this series is a simple embedded strip, predating the windowed thread technology Bradbury Wilkinson's successors would later apply to regional issues.