1/2 Dollar - Elizabeth II Surrender of Cornwallis

The Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown in October 1781 effectively ended major combat operations in the American Revolutionary War, though Britain and the United States did not sign the Treaty of Paris until September 1783. The Solomon Islands has no historical connection to that event — this is a modern commemorative struck purely for the collector market, a practice the Central Bank has pursued aggressively since the 1990s with themed issues bearing little relation to national history.