1/2 Dollar - Elizabeth II Captain Smith and Pocahontas

The Solomon Islands has issued a considerable volume of commemorative copper-alloy coinage through licensed distributors targeting the collector market rather than domestic circulation. This piece belongs squarely to that category — a numismatic product with no organic connection to the colonial Jamestown story it references. John Smith's account of Pocahontas saving his life, almost certainly embellished or wholly invented, has driven centuries of romanticized retelling that continues to sell merchandise, including apparently, coins struck in the Pacific.