Catalog
10 Dollars
| Issuer | Central Bank of Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1977-date) |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a seated figure engaged in traditional net weaving, rendered in intaglio within a circular guilloche frame with flowing decorative lines evoking the weaving process. The Solomon Islands national emblem appears at upper left, with numeral '10' rosettes placed at each lower corner. The colour scheme is violet-pink over a pale lilac guilloche underprint. |
| Reverse lettering | SOLOMON ISLANDS Ten Dollars 10 |
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The Solomon Islands gained independence from Britain in 1978, and the Central Bank was established the same year to replace the British Solomon Islands dollar at par. This 1984 note belongs to the first substantive series issued under the new central bank's authority — the groundwork series, in practical terms, before the islands had developed much in the way of indigenous design direction. De La Rue printed almost everything coming out of newly independent Pacific territories in this period, and the execution here is competent but unremarkable.
Watermark-only security reflects the modest anti-counterfeiting requirements of an economy this small. Sophisticated forgery was simply not an operational concern.