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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Gallipoli Landing
| Issuer | Central Bank of Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#286 |
| Obverse description | Right-facing crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II after the portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, whose initials 'IRB' appear beneath the truncation of the bust. The legend 'ELIZABETH II' arcs along the lower left rim, 'SOLOMON ISLANDS' along the upper rim, and '10 DOLLARS' along the lower right rim, all in raised Latin characters. The date '2015' appears in the lower exergual area. The upper left quadrant of the field is rendered in deep mirror proof finish contrasting with the relief portrait. |
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| Reverse description | Full-color depiction of ANZAC soldiers storming the beach at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915, commemorating the centenary of the landing. The foreground features a prominently detailed Australian infantryman in campaign dress and slouch hat, carrying a bolt-action rifle in a crouching advance; additional soldiers with weapons and full kit are visible behind him on the rocky shoreline. The background, rendered partly in monochrome, shows landing boats approaching the coast and the dramatic clifftops of the Gallipoli peninsula. The upper legend 'FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY' arcs along the rim, while the lower legend '1915 GALLIPOLI LANDING' is inscribed across the lower field. |
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The Gallipoli centenary in 2015 prompted a wave of commemorative issues across Commonwealth mints, but Solomon Islands had particular reason to mark the occasion — the islands became a major theater of Pacific warfare within a generation of the 1915 landings, and the ANZAC connection runs through regional memory in ways that mainland commemoratives rarely acknowledge. The ANZACs who fought at Gallipoli and survived often returned to Pacific service in later conflicts.