1/2 Dollar - Elizabeth II New York

The New York issues in this Solomon Islands series were produced by the Berne-based SwissMint under contract, part of a broader wave of small-format .999 silver fractionals that flooded the collector market through the 2010s. Solomon Islands became a favored issuing authority for these pieces precisely because it imposed minimal design restrictions, giving private minting houses near-total creative latitude.

KM# 1025 sits in a crowded catalog of near-identical fractional programs from this period, most sharing the same 2.5g planchet specification.