Catalog
50 Cents - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Monetary Authority of Fiji |
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| Year | 1974 |
| Type | Non-circulating banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | FIJI THESE NOTES ARE LEGAL TENDER FOR THE PAYMENT OF ANY AMOUNT FIFTY CENTS FOR THE MONETARY AUTHORITY OF FIJI 50 C |
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| Variants | P#70s - overprint: "SPECIMEN" P#a - |
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Fiji's 1974 banknote series was the first issued under the Monetary Authority of Fiji, established just two years earlier in 1973 following the dissolution of the Board of Commissioners of Currency. The 50 Cents note is a curiosity in that respect — a fractional denomination in paper form, issued at a moment when the country was still constructing its independent monetary infrastructure after becoming a republic in 1970.
De La Rue's watermark security on this series was modest by contemporary standards, though entirely consistent with what TDLR supplied to small Commonwealth island economies throughout the 1970s. The 50 Cents denomination was eventually dropped as inflation rendered it impractical in paper form.