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5 Shillings
| Uitgever | Fiji Banking and Commercial Company Limited |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1871 |
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| Samenstelling | Paper |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Letterpress-printed note with a decorative rectangular border enclosing the issuer's name in bold script across the upper portion: "Fiji Banking and Commercial Company, Limited." A central vignette of a floral or heraldic device is flanked by serial numbers (No. 707) on either side, with the place of issue "LEVUKA" and a manuscript date at left. The promise-to-pay text runs across the centre in a guilloche-bordered panel, with denomination numerals "5" repeated in the four corners and "5 SHILLINGS" in bold at foot. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | 5 SHILLINGS FIJI 5 SHILLINGS Banking and Commercial Company Limited. LEVUKA On Demand We Promise to Pay the Bearer FIVE SHILLINGS Sterling 5 SHILLINGS |
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| Opmerkingen |
The Fiji Banking and Commercial Company was a short-lived colonial institution, incorporated in Sydney and operating in Fiji during the unsettled period before formal British annexation in 1874. That political ambiguity matters here: Fiji had no sovereign government with a functioning treasury, and private banks filled the vacuum. Notes like this one circulated alongside a chaotic mix of colonial scrip, foreign coins, and plantation barter tokens.
S. T. Leigh & Co. were primarily commercial printers — jobbing work, stationery, trade forms — not specialist security printers. That background is visible in how these notes were produced, without the intaglio sophistication of a De La Rue or Bradbury Wilkinson contract.
Survivors are extremely rare. Pick 19 predates the Cakobau government's own note issues and the entire Crown Colony period.