Part of a twelve-piece zodiac series issued by the Solomon Islands — a jurisdiction that has produced collector bullion under royal portrait authority for decades without any domestic gold mining industry to speak of. At 0.5 g of .9999 fine gold, these pieces exist entirely outside circulation economics; the melt value alone exceeds face value many times over, and no issuing government pretends otherwise.
Part of a twelve-piece zodiac series issued by the Solomon Islands — a jurisdiction that has produced collector bullion under royal portrait authority for decades without any domestic gold mining industry to speak of. At 0.5 g of .9999 fine gold, these pieces exist entirely outside circulation economics; the melt value alone exceeds face value many times over, and no issuing government pretends otherwise.