1/2 Dollar Terracotta Army

Fiji has issued commemorative silver under Reserve Bank authority since the 1970s, but this piece belongs to a much more recent wave of licensed Chinese cultural-theme coins produced largely for the collector market rather than domestic circulation. The Terracotta Army was discovered in 1974 by farmers digging a well near Xi'an — one of the most consequential archaeological finds of the twentieth century, eventually revealing an estimated 8,000 figures guarding the tomb of Qin Shi Huang.

Fiji's nominal denomination gives the coin legal tender status while keeping production costs outside Chinese mint jurisdiction.