Catalog
5 Dollars - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Fiji |
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| Year | 1998-2002 |
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| Size | 156 × 67 mm |
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| Obverse description | Brown intaglio print over multicolour guilloche underprint. Mature portrait of Queen Elizabeth II at right, national arms at upper right, and a Manusa (fantail bird) vignette at lower left. A segmented foil security thread is embedded vertically through the note. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette presents an aerial view of Nadi International Airport, with a ferry boat rendered at lower centre-right against a multicolour underprint. |
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Fiji's P#101 series bridged two governors — Kubuabola and Narube — meaning notes from different signing dates within the same print run carry different authorizations, a minor point that matters more to collectors than it ever did to Fijian commerce. Thomas De La Rue printed the series in London, as they had handled Fijian currency for decades, the relationship dating back well before independence.
The 1998 issue date coincides with a period of relative political stability between Fiji's 1987 coups and the 2000 Speight coup, the latter of which disrupted normal banking operations and left quantities of this series temporarily out of circulation channels.