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1/4 Dollar - Elizabeth II The Poor Poet
| Issuer | Solomon Islands Government |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Full-color reproduction of Carl Spitzweg's celebrated 1839 Romantic oil painting 'Der arme Poet' (The Poor Poet), applied to the rectangular field of the coin. The scene depicts a gaunt, white-clad poet reclining in a cramped attic garret, sheltered by an open black umbrella, surrounded by stacked books and manuscripts strewn across the floor. A small stove occupies the left background, with a single window admitting meager light into the sparse, humble dwelling. The vivid chromatic printing faithfully reproduces the warm tonal palette of the original painting, presented within a gold-plated rectangular border. |
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The Poor Poet is a 1837 oil painting by Carl Spitzweg, now held at the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, depicting a garret-dwelling writer huddled under bedclothes with an umbrella for a roof and manuscripts burning in the fireplace for heat. Its selection for a Solomon Islands bullion-format commemorative reflects the broader wave of sub-sovereign Pacific island issues that flooded the collectibles market after 2010, many produced by the same handful of European minting houses under licensing arrangements with nominal issuing governments.
The Solomon Islands connection is fiscal rather than historical.