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| Issuer | Government of Fiji |
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| Year | 1969 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars (10 FJD) |
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| Obverse lettering | Government of Fiji, These notes are legal tender for the payment of any amount. TEN DOLLARS for the Government of Fiji |
| Reverse description | Central panel carries the denomination in words, flanked by geometric patterned shapes, with the value in figures repeated in all four corners. The note is printed in purple and lilac tones throughout. |
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Fiji's transition from the pound to the decimal dollar system took effect on 13 January 1969, and this note belongs to that inaugural decimal issue — the first time a "dollar" denomination had appeared on Fijian government paper. The changeover required entirely new printing plates rather than redenominated overprints, which De La Rue executed from London under a standing contract that had supplied Fijian currency for decades.
The series was short-lived. Elizabeth II's cypher as issuing authority was superseded when the Reserve Bank of Fiji assumed note-issuing responsibility in 1974, making the entire 1969 government issue a single-run series with no reprints.