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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Save the Whales
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Fiji |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1969-date) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, with a draped neckline and drop earring, as modeled by Ian Rank-Broadley. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the left periphery, while FIJI and the date 2002 appear along the right periphery. The sculptor's initials IRB appear truncated below the portrait. The field is mirror-polished in keeping with the proof finish. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Fiji's "Save the Whales" series sat within a broader wave of Pacific island conservation-themed silver issues that flooded the collector market in the late 1990s and early 2000s, most produced under licensing arrangements with overseas minting houses rather than struck domestically. The Reserve Bank of Fiji issued these almost exclusively as legal tender bullion collectibles — never intended for circulation, struck to order for the numismatic trade.
KM#101 was produced at a moment when humpback and sperm whale populations in the South Pacific remained under active international protection debate, with the IWC moratorium on commercial whaling still contested by Japan and Norway.