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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Catherine Palace
| Issuer | Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, depicted with a diadem and wearing a pearl earring, in the style of the Ian Rank-Broadley portrait. The engraver's initials IRB appear below the truncation. The surrounding legend arcs from lower left to upper right reading ELIZABETH II SOLOMON ISLANDS 10 DOLLARS, while the lower field bears the inscriptions 0.5g, the date 2021, and the fineness mark Au 999.9. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Catherine Palace, the baroque imperial residence at Tsarskoye Selo, was looted by German forces in 1941 — most infamously, the Amber Room was systematically dismantled and shipped west, never conclusively recovered. The palace itself was left a gutted shell. Soviet restoration began almost immediately after the war and continued for decades, with the Amber Room finally reconstructed from archival photographs and completed only in 2003.
This issue belongs to the proliferating category of fractional gold miniatures produced for the collector market, struck at 0.5 g in four-nines fine gold — a format with no circulation intent whatsoever.