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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Dilophosaurus
| Issuer | Central Bank of Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A full-bodied profile depiction of a Dilophosaurus wetherilli rendered in fine relief, facing left with its characteristic double cranial crests prominently detailed, set against a stylised prehistoric landscape with foliage and a concentric circular design element in the upper right field. A circular inset motif in the upper right displays a fossilised footprint, accompanied by the inscription DILOPHOSAURUS in a rectangular banner. The fineness and weight notation 0.5g Au.999 appears in the lower left field. |
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Part of a proliferating genre of fractional gold novelty issues produced for the collector market, this piece has no circulation history and was never intended to. The Solomon Islands' licensing of its monetary authority for themed bullion programs — dinosaurs, space, wildlife — is a revenue arrangement, not a numismatic tradition. The Dilophosaurus itself is a Jurassic theropod whose popular image was permanently distorted by the 1993 Jurassic Park film, which invented both the neck frill and the venom-spitting behavior.