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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II James Cook Discovery
| Issuer | Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | COOK'S VOYAGE of DISCOVERY Pacific Ocean AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND 250TH ANNIVERSARY 1770~2020 |
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Cook's 1568 "discovery" of the Solomons was, in reality, the islands' rediscovery — Álvaro de Mendaña had reached them in 1568, then spent over two centuries failing to find them again on subsequent Pacific voyages, a navigational embarrassment that delayed European re-contact until 1767. The Solomon Islands themselves were not definitively charted by Cook; much of that work fell to later expeditions.
The 93.3g format places this squarely in the three-troy-ounce collector category, a weight class that became fashionable among Pacific island issuing programs in the late 2010s specifically for large-format colorized or antiqued presentation pieces marketed to the European collector market.