Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Florence Nightingale
| Issuer | Solomon Islands |
|---|---|
| Year | 1996 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Full-length figure of Florence Nightingale standing three-quarter view, depicted in period nursing dress and bonnet, holding a lantern in her raised right hand and cradling it with her left, with wounded soldiers resting in beds visible in the lower background field. The arc legend 'VICTORIAN AGE' appears along the upper rim, with 'FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE 1854' inscribed on a secondary inner arc below. Decorative foliate scrollwork ornaments flank the central design. The denomination '10 DOLLARS' is inscribed along the lower rim. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Nightingale's connection to the Solomon Islands is nonexistent, which places this squarely in the commemorative bullion category that flooded the market throughout the 1990s — small nations licensing their minting authority to produce themed silver rounds for the collector trade. The actual striking was almost certainly contracted to a private mint, with the Solomon Islands providing little beyond its name on the coin.
Nightingale died in 1910, and 1996 marked no particular anniversary of note in her biography.