5 Cents - Elizabeth II 2nd portrait, Silver Proof Issue

Fiji's 1976 proof coinage was struck to coincide with the country's decade of independence from Britain, achieved in October 1970. The Royal Mint produced these silver proofs for collector sets rather than circulation, a common arrangement for Commonwealth nations seeking both foreign exchange revenue and philatelic-numismatic goodwill in the 1970s. Machin's second portrait of Elizabeth II, introduced across Commonwealth issues from 1966, was already a decade old by this striking.