5 Shillings

The Fiji Banking and Commercial Company was a short-lived private institution operating in the islands just as the colonial order was being formalized — Britain annexed Fiji in 1874, and the regulatory ground shifted beneath every commercial enterprise in the territory almost immediately. Whether this note predates or postdates cession is worth establishing before purchase, as examples from 1873–74 and those from 1875–76 carry meaningfully different political contexts.

Private banknote issuance in Fiji effectively ended with colonial consolidation. Survivors from this issuer are genuinely rare, and the Pick numbering sits in a section of the catalog that remains poorly documented.