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12½ Cents
| Issuer | Government of Fiji |
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| Year | 1873 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | C.R. Levuka 1873 12½ Cents. SIKISIPENI NI VAKACAVACAVA Ai vola oqo sosomi ni lavo Vakacavacava Vaka Viti Lave Turaga ni lavo |
| Reverse description | Blank unprinted paper reverse, showing heavy fold lines and wear consistent with circulation. No design, text, or security elements are present. |
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Fiji's 12½ cent denomination is a direct consequence of the island's pre-decimal currency arithmetic, where the Spanish dollar and its fractional descendants still shaped everyday transactions in the 1870s. The figure 12½ cents equals one shilling in the Fijian dollar system of the time — a crossover value that made sense to a trading population dealing simultaneously in British sterling and dollar-based coinage.
Cession to Britain came in October 1874, making this 1873 government issue one of the last paper instruments produced under the independent Kingdom of Fiji. Its survival rate is extremely low.