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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Thank You Tommy Atkins
| Issuer | Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field depicts a satin-finished silhouette composition showing a uniformed First World War British soldier — 'Tommy Atkins' — stooping to receive a poppy flower offered by a small child, both figures rendered as bold relief silhouettes against a textured ground suggestive of a wartime landscape. The curved legend WAR POPPY COLLECTION arcs across the upper portion of the field in raised Latin lettering, commemorating the War Poppy Collection series. |
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Tommy Atkins — the generic placeholder name used by the British Army since at least the early 19th century to represent the common soldier — became a cultural fixture partly through Kipling's 1890 poem of the same name, which skewered the public's habit of dismissing soldiers in peacetime while lionizing them in war. The Solomon Islands, as a former British protectorate and site of some of the Pacific's most brutal WWII fighting, has issued this piece under the broader wave of small-format gold tribute coinage that proliferated in the 2010s and 2020s.
At 0.5 grams, the gold content is minimal — these exist primarily as collectibles rather than bullion.