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1 Dollar Egyptian Dragon
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Fiji |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar |
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| Obverse lettering | FIJI 2023 1oz .999 FINE SILVER Rerevaka na Kalou ka doka na Tui 1 DOLLAR (Translation: Fear God and honour the King/Queen) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The "Egyptian Dragon" is a curious piece of numismatic geography — Egypt has no dragon tradition whatsoever, and the design draws instead on a broader Near Eastern and Mesopotamian mythological lineage that 20th-century Western collectors loosely bundled under the Egyptian exotic brand. Fiji has issued its sovereign authority for exactly this kind of bullion-adjacent legal tender since the early 2010s, a revenue arrangement common among Pacific island nations whose mints produce nothing domestically.
KM#1137 places this within a well-documented series of Fijian-issued fantasy rounds dressed as legal tender — one troy ounce of .999 silver at nominal face value, produced almost certainly by a European contract mint.