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50 Dollars
| Issuer | Treasury of Fiji |
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| Year | 1872-1873 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | N.B. THIS NOTE IS A LEGAL TENDER AND PAYABLE AT THE TREASURY. TREASURY NOTE. LEVUKA The Bearer of the presented forward to the Treasury invokes FIFTY DOLLARS. FIFTY |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Treasury of Fiji's early paper issues are among the more obscure colonial Pacific emissions, and this 50 Dollar note sits at the upper end of a short-lived series issued under the pre-cession government before Britain formally annexed the islands in October 1874. S. T. Leigh & Co. was a Sydney commercial printer, not a specialist security printer — the firm handled general trade and government work across the Australian colonies, which makes these notes technically modest by contemporary standards.
Three signature lines were required for validity, a control measure reflecting chronic administrative distrust of single-authority paper in small colonial treasuries. The watermark is the primary anti-counterfeiting device — unsurprising given the printer's limitations.