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1/4 Dollar - Elizabeth II Childhood Friends
| Issuer | Central Bank of Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Value | 1/4 Dollar |
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| Obverse description | A circular raised medallion set within the rectangular gold-plated field bears the right-facing diademed and draped effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, after the portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, with the engraver's initials IRB incuse below the truncation. The surrounding legend reads ELIZABETH II to the left and SOLOMON ISLANDS 1/4 DOLLAR to the right, with the date 2015 inscribed below the portrait in the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II SOLOMON ISLANDS 1/4 DOLLAR IRB 2015 |
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The Solomon Islands has issued commemorative coinage under its own authority since independence in 1978, but by the 2010s its central bank had become one of several Pacific island issuers partnering with European minting houses — primarily Austrian and Polish — to produce high-weight, low-denomination collector pieces marketed internationally. These issues carry nominal face values with no practical relationship to their metal content or retail price, a common structure in the modern commemorative market.
This particular piece belongs to a themed series issued during the final years before Elizabeth II's 90th birthday, drawing on royal biographical material that had circulated widely following the Diamond Jubilee.