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.
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.