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½ Dollar - Elizabeth II Saudi Arabia
| Issuer | Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Value | ½ Dollar ½ SBD = RSD 6.17 |
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| Reverse description | Coloured central field depicting a football player executing a kick, flanked by a colour-printed map of Saudi Arabia in green and the official FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 branding elements including a play-button motif and football icons. The legend 'Saudi Arabia' appears in the mid-field in Latin script. At the bottom, the official FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 logo and the inscription 'FIFA WORLD CUP Qatar 2022' are engraved. The outer border carries a bilingual circular legend in Arabic and Latin scripts reading 'كأس العالم FIFA قطر ٢٠٢٢' with trademark symbols, separated by small football ornaments. |
| Reverse script | Arabic/Latin |
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This piece belongs to a sprawling category of modern commemorative issues produced for the Solomon Islands by private minting houses — typically European — targeting the collector market rather than any domestic monetary need. Saudi Arabia has no particular historical or political connection to the Solomon Islands; the pairing exists because the issuing framework allows virtually any subject to be attached to a Commonwealth face-value denomination.
Elizabeth II died on 8 September 2022, making that year's output of portrait issues across Pacific nominal issuers exceptionally voluminous as mints rushed final authorized designs to market.