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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Olympics 1984
| Issuer | Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 1984 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Second portrait effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, with a lightly draped truncation. The legend ELIZABETH II curves along the left periphery and SOLOMON ISLANDS along the right periphery, both in raised Latin letters against a smooth field. |
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| Mintage | 1984 - - 5,000 |
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The Los Angeles Games of 1984 were boycotted by the Soviet Union and thirteen allied nations in retaliation for the U.S.-led boycott of Moscow four years earlier, making them the most politically fractured Olympics since 1936. Small Commonwealth nations like the Solomon Islands — independent only since 1978 — frequently issued commemorative coinage around major international events partly to generate foreign exchange revenue, the coins being sold to collectors rather than circulated domestically.