10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Gallipoli Landing

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.