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| Issuer | Central Bank of Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1977-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | CHARLES III · 2023 · SOLOMON ISLANDS DT · ONE DOLLAR · |
| Reverse description | Full-color printed design inspired by the official movie poster artwork for Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, featuring a central confrontation between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader with lightsabers crossed in the foreground. The composition includes large portrait busts of Chewbacca and Jabba the Hutt in the upper field, with Yoda and C-3PO to the right and R2-D2 in the lower right. The Millennium Falcon and TIE fighters are depicted in the background amid a star-filled purple and green nebula. The bold legend 'STAR WARS RETURN OF THE JEDI' appears in the lower field, with the copyright notice '© & ™ Lucasfilm Ltd.' along the left edge and the specification '8g Pure .999 AG' inscribed at the base. |
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The Solomon Islands has operated as a prolific vehicle for licensed numismatic issues since the early 2000s, with the Perth Mint and various European minting houses using its issuing authority for collectible silver rounds that have no meaningful circulation relationship with the territory itself. This piece is one such product — a bullion-adjacent collectible tied to the 1983 Lucasfilm release, issued forty years after the film's premiere.
KM# 650 places it within a numbered series, suggesting coordinated multi-coin release rather than a standalone issue.