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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II 100 Years as British Protectorate
| Issuer | Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Diameter | 38.61 mm |
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| Reverse description | Central scene depicting two historic vessels at sea: a large full-rigged sailing ship identified as HMS Curacao on the right and a smaller vessel labelled Goldfinch on the left, rendered in fine detail. To the upper left, a small oval cameo portrait of Queen Victoria faces right, draped and diademed. The arc legend 'WESTERN PACIFIC ORDER IN COUNCIL 1893' curves around the upper and right rim, commemorating the centenary of the Solomon Islands becoming a British Protectorate. The denomination '10 DOLLARS' appears in the lower field, flanked by a decorative rope motif. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The British Solomon Islands Protectorate was declared in 1893, initially to suppress the blackbirding trade — the violent recruitment, often amounting to kidnapping, of islanders for forced labor on Queensland sugar plantations and Fijian cotton farms. This coin marks the centenary of that declaration. The protectorate's early administration was skeletal; a single Resident Commissioner governed a scatter of islands with minimal resources for decades.
KM#49 is a one-year type with no known circulation, struck for the commemorative market.