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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II California Gold Rush
| Issuer | Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Weight | 0.31 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central scene depicting prospectors engaged in placer gold mining during the California Gold Rush, set against a riverbank landscape with pine trees in the background. In the foreground, a miner kneels panning for gold, while to the left a bearded prospector in suspenders holds a pan and other miners operate a sluice box behind him. The background field is densely covered with the repeating micro-text legend THE HISTORY OF GOLD. The arched banner CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH appears at the top of the field, with the date 2018 below it, and the inscription THE HISTORY OF GOLD is displayed prominently at the bottom, within a beaded inner border. |
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These miniature gold pieces — struck at 0.31 g against a 45 mm diameter, making the planchet almost vanishingly thin — were produced by the Perth Mint as part of a broader commemorative program targeting the California Gold Rush of 1848–1855. The Solomon Islands has no meaningful historical connection to that event; the attribution is a licensing arrangement, as with much of the Perth Mint's numismatic output under Pacific Island sovereign names.
The Rush itself displaced an estimated 300,000 migrants into California within seven years, collapsing the territory's indigenous population and triggering statehood in 1850, two years ahead of any plausible organic timeline.