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20 Dollars - Elizabeth II Bird of Paradise
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Fiji |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A highly detailed, polychrome colorized depiction of a Bird of Paradise (Paradisaea species) perched amidst foliage on a naturalistically rendered branch, its rich auburn and golden plumage rendered in vivid applied color against the antique-finished silver field. The bird is shown in a dynamic display posture, with elaborate decorative plumes fanning outward and a distinctive wire-like tail feather curling below. A second Bird of Paradise is partially visible behind the first, its yellow head and open beak emerging from the foliage. The inscription EXOTIC ENDANGERED WILDLIFE arcs along the upper left rim within a beaded inner border. |
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Fiji's Reserve Bank has produced a long run of large-format silver issues aimed squarely at the collector market, and this piece sits firmly in that tradition. The Bird of Paradise series drew on Papua New Guinea's national symbol despite being issued under Fijian authority — a curiously indirect relationship between subject and issuer that was entirely standard practice for Pacific island commemorative programs of this period, where the issuing jurisdiction and the depicted subject had no meaningful political connection.