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50 Cents - Elizabeth II 3rd portrait
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Fiji |
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| Year | 2009-2010 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, modelled by Raphael David Maklouf, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, pearl drop earrings, and a pearl necklace. The engraver's initials RDM appear in the truncation of the bust. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the left field, with FIJI and the date 2009 positioned along the right field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Fiji's shift to nickel-plated steel for this denomination came as part of a 2009 coinage reform that also reduced physical size across several values — a cost-driven response to rising base metal prices that had made the older copper-nickel coins worth more as raw material than as currency. The third portrait of Elizabeth II, by Ian Rank-Broadley, had been in circulation on Fijian coinage since 1996 but was retired shortly after this issue when Fiji adopted a wholly new national series in 2012 following the country's suspension from the Pacific Islands Forum.