20 Dollars - Elizabeth II

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.