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1/2 Dollar - Elizabeth II Mission Control
| Issuer | Central Bank of Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Diameter | 40 mm |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II after Ian Rank-Broadley, depicting the monarch wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara with finely detailed hair and pearl drop earring. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the left field, SOLOMON ISLANDS along the right, and HALF DOLLAR curves along the lower rim. The engraver's initials IRB appear beneath the portrait truncation in the lower central field. |
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| Reverse description | A composite design commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission and the role of NASA's Houston Mission Control. The upper portion features an engraved world map in the field with a central monitor screen depicting a color-printed close-up of an astronaut's helmeted face as seen on broadcast television during the mission. Below, a full-color photographic reproduction shows mission controllers seated at their consoles in the Houston flight control room. A mission elapsed time readout of 00:08:59:02 appears centrally, with a circled numeral 50 at the right. The legend MISSION CONTROL arcs along the upper rim, flanked by 1969-2019 at the lower left and HOUSTON at the lower right. |
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Part of a sprawling series of novelty issues produced for the international collector market rather than domestic circulation, this piece commemorates NASA's Mission Control — specifically the Houston facility that managed every crewed Apollo flight. Solomon Islands has become a prolific licensor of such themed collector coins since the 2000s, with the Central Bank lending its issuing authority to dozens of series annually that bear no practical relationship to the islands' economy or history.
Silver-plated copper of this weight was the standard cost-reduction choice for this tier of the market by 2019.