20 Dollars Year of the Snake

Fiji's Reserve Bank has issued dozens of gemstone-inset commemoratives, and this piece sits in that crowded field without much to distinguish the issuing authority's monetary history from the object itself. The 2013 Year of the Snake issue was produced for the export collector market — Fiji holding no particular cultural connection to the Chinese lunar calendar — with the ruby inclusion serving as the primary commercial draw rather than any numismatic or historical justification.