Issued to mark the May 2018 marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, this is one of hundreds of nearly identical commemorative pieces produced across Commonwealth and non-Commonwealth territories alike for the same event. Solomon Islands has a long pattern of licensing its name to third-party minting operations for exactly this kind of issue — the coins are struck speculatively for the collector market and see no domestic circulation whatsoever.
Issued to mark the May 2018 marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, this is one of hundreds of nearly identical commemorative pieces produced across Commonwealth and non-Commonwealth territories alike for the same event. Solomon Islands has a long pattern of licensing its name to third-party minting operations for exactly this kind of issue — the coins are struck speculatively for the collector market and see no domestic circulation whatsoever.