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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II SMS Gneisenau
| Issuer | Central Bank of Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2010 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing portrait effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, diademed and wearing a pearl drop earring, rendered in fine relief after the fourth definitive portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the left field and SOLOMON ISLANDS along the right field, with the date 2010 positioned at the bottom. The engraver's initials IRB appear below the truncation of the bust. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II SOLOMON ISLANDS IRB 2010 |
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SMS Gneisenau was an armored cruiser of the Imperial German Navy that met her end in the Battle of the Falkland Islands on 8 December 1914, sunk by British battlecruisers HMS Invincible and HMS Inflexible after her squadron's catastrophic miscalculation in returning to Port Stanley. Of roughly 850 men aboard, only 187 survived. The Solomon Islands connection is geographic — the vessel patrolled the Pacific station before the war and passed through waters now under that nation's jurisdiction.