10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Thank You Tommy Atkins

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.