2012 Flora & Fauna Series 10 Cents Coin

10 cents

Diameter: 21.50mm | Thickness: 1.50mm | Weight: 3.55g | Edge Type: Milled

The front design features a Beka-Mirimiri, (Fiji’s Flying Fox) which is one of the world’s rarest mammals. It has only ever been recorded for certain on three occasions – most recently in 2009 by a team from Nature Fiji-Mareqeti Viti, [a fully local environment NGO] and on all occasions in the upland cloud forests of Taveuni, at elevations near or higher than 1,000 metres. The Fiji Flying Fox is a very distinctive species with no close relatives. Because of its rarity, nothing is known of its behavior and ecology.

The back design features an I ulā tavatava (throwing club).