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25 Dollars - Elizabeth II Cession to Great Britain
| Issuer | Fiji |
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| Year | 1974 |
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| Engraver(s) | Arnold Machin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1974 - - 2,400 1974 - Proof - 8,299 |
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This issue commemorates the centenary of Fiji's formal cession to Great Britain on October 10, 1874, when Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau — the paramount chief who had spent decades consolidating power across the islands — signed the deed of cession alongside other leading chiefs. Cakobau's motivations were partly pragmatic: inter-tribal conflict, an unpayable debt to American merchants, and the destabilizing presence of European settlers had made independent governance increasingly untenable.
Fiji became a Crown Colony under Sir Hercules Robinson, and the centennial year of 1974 also coincided with Fijian independence — achieved just four years earlier in 1970 — lending the occasion an unmistakable political duality.