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1 Cent - Elizabeth II 2nd portrait
| Issuer | Central Bank of Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 1985 |
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| Value | 1 Cent (0.01 SBD) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, as modelled by Arnold Machin. The Queen's hair is styled in an elegant upswept coiffure with curled locks falling to the nape of the neck. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the left periphery, SOLOMON ISLANDS along the right, and the date 1985 is positioned at the base of the coin below the truncation. The portrait is rendered in high relief against a plain field. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 CENT |
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The KM#1a designation marks the transition from the original bronze composition to bronze-plated steel — a cost-cutting measure adopted across many Pacific island nations during the early 1980s as raw material costs made small-denomination coinage increasingly uneconomical to produce. Solomon Islands gained independence in 1978, and the Central Bank was still calibrating its coinage infrastructure during this period.
The second portrait of Elizabeth II, by Arnold Machin, was in use from 1968 through the mid-1980s before Ian Rank-Broadley's effigy eventually succeeded it across Commonwealth issues.