1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Dingo

Part of a miniature gold series issued for the collector market, this piece was struck by a private mint under license rather than the Royal Australian Mint or any sovereign Pacific facility. The dingo's appearance on a Solomon Islands issue is purely commercial — the animal has no cultural or historical connection to the archipelago. These sub-gram gold coins proliferated across small-nation licensing arrangements throughout the 2010s, with issuers like Solomon Islands lending their sovereign authority to pieces never intended to circulate anywhere near Honiara.