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10 Dollars
| Issuer | Government of Fiji (Treasury) |
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| Year | 1872-1873 |
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| Printer | S. T. Leigh & Co., Sydney, Australia |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown on off-white paper, the note is typeset and engraved, with the royal cypher monogram "C.R." positioned at top center above the Fijian Coat of Arms. The bearer clause and denomination "TEN DOLLARS" are set in letterpress, with the place of issue given as Lekuva (Levuka), and the printer's imprint of S. T. Leigh & Co., Sydney appears at lower center. Manuscript date, handwritten serial number, and a hand-applied Treasurer's signature are present, along with a hand-stamped "CANCELLED" overprint. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is plain, printed on unadorned off-white paper with no design elements, lettering, or vignettes, consistent with the simple utilitarian production of early Fijian Treasury notes of this period. |
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Among the earliest paper currency issued in Fiji, this note predates the formal cession of the islands to Britain by two years — Fiji became a Crown Colony in October 1874. The Government of Fiji Treasury was operating in a constitutional grey zone, printing money under the short-lived settler-dominated government of Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau, who had accepted a form of confederate kingship in 1871.
S. T. Leigh & Co. were primarily a Sydney printing and stationery firm, not a specialist security printer. Three manuscript signatures — Smith, Clarkson, and Woods — were required per note, a labor-intensive authentication method that points to extremely limited issue volumes.