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50 Dollars - Elizabeth II 5th Pharaoh Hatshepsut of Eighteenth Dynasty
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Fiji |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | HATSHEPSUT |
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Hatshepsut ruled Egypt for roughly twenty years during the Eighteenth Dynasty, yet her successor Thutmose III systematically erased her image and cartouches from monuments — a disfigurement campaign so thorough that Egyptologists didn't conclusively identify her as a female pharaoh until the nineteenth century. Fiji's involvement is purely fiduciary: the island nation has issued hundreds of collector coins under Reserve Bank authority bearing no connection to Fijian history, a legal arrangement common among small sovereigns licensing their currency for the bullion and numismatic market.