10 Dollars - Charles III Napoleon Bonaparte

Charles-Louis Napoleon Bonaparte spent years in exile and prison before engineering his return to French political life, winning the 1848 presidential election by an enormous margin on the strength of his uncle's name alone. He then dissolved the legislature in 1851, declared himself Emperor Napoleon III the following year, and ruled until the catastrophic defeat at Sedan in 1870 ended the Second Empire permanently.

The Solomon Islands has issued this piece under licensing arrangements that have made it a prolific host for gold miniatures of this type — the 45 mm diameter against 0.31 g of metal means the planchet is extraordinarily thin.