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1/2 Dollar - Elizabeth II Germany
| Issuer | Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Coloured central field depicting football-themed imagery celebrating Germany's participation in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. The design features the German national flag rendered in black, red, and gold, alongside a stylised yellow silhouette map of Germany and a dynamic figure of a footballer in action. The official FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 emblem appears at the bottom of the inner circle. A stylised stadium motif is visible at the top of the inner field. The surrounding border carries the bilingual legend in Arabic and Latin scripts referencing the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, with football motifs and the trademark symbol punctuating the design. |
| Reverse script | Arabic, Latin |
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This piece belongs to a cottage industry of Pacific island legal-tender issues that use Solomon Islands' mint authority as a vehicle for collector-market novelty coins — in this case, pairing the late Queen with German thematic content in a combination that has no historical or political logic beyond marketing demographics. Elizabeth II died in September 2022, making this one of the last calendar-year issues to carry her effigy under a Solomon Islands authorization before the transition to Charles III coinage began.