The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 8, February 20, 2005, Article 20

MAINTAINING ROYAL PORTRAITS ON COINS

Don Cleveland writes: "I just read the comments about
maintaining the Royal Family and the monarch's effigy on coins.

Just to confuse the issue of the use of the monarch's effigy
on coins and banknotes. Fiji declared itself a Republic on
October 6, 1987, severing links with the British crown.
Fiji replaced the Queen's Representative, the Governor
General, with its own President. Yet, to this day, Her
Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's effigy appears on all Fijian
coins and banknotes. Fiji is a member of the Commonwealth
of Nations, but so are several other former British colonies,
all of which discontinued using the Queen's effigy upon
becoming Republics."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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