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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Stonehenge

Issuer Solomon Islands
Year 2020
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Weight 0.5 g
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Obverse script Latin
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Part of a long-running series of miniature gold issues produced for the collector market, this piece capitalizes on Stonehenge's enduring commercial appeal rather than any specific Solomon Islands connection to the site. The islands have no historical or geographic relationship to Wiltshire — the pairing is purely a licensing and marketing arrangement common to small sovereign issuers seeking hard-currency numismatic revenue.

At 0.5 grams, these fractional issues were produced by a contracted European mint facility, almost certainly BH Mayer in Germany, which struck the bulk of comparable Pacific island micro-gold series during this period.

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