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5 Shillings
| Issuer | Government of Fiji |
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| Year | 1934-1935 |
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| Value | 5 Shillings (1/4) |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
| Protection description | Watermark visible in the blank circular reserve areas on both obverse and reverse |
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| Comments |
Fiji's pre-decimal Government currency issues of the 1930s required three countersignatures per note — a Colonial Financial Secretary, a Colonial Secretary, and the Governor — an unusually cumbersome authorization structure that reflected London's tight grip on Pacific territorial finances during the Depression. The three distinct signature combinations on P#31 correspond to successive changes in those colonial officeholders across just fourteen months of issue.
Bradbury Wilkinson held the contract for Fiji government notes throughout this period. The 1934 date variants are meaningfully scarcer than the March 1935 issue, with the January 1934 Seymour/Chamberlain/Boyd combination the rarest of the three.