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| Issuer | Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Composition | Gold (.9999) |
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| Obverse description | Rectangular gold bar-format coin featuring the right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II after Ian Rank-Broadley, wearing a diadem, occupying the upper right portion of the field. The legend SOLOMON ISLANDS appears along the upper border. Below the portrait, the denomination $10 is prominently rendered in large characters, with the inscription 1g FINE GOLD 999.9 beneath it. The LEV mint mark appears within a cartouche at the lower center of the field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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This piece belongs to a wave of small-format gold issues produced in the mid-2010s by Pacific island nations — Solomon Islands prominent among them — licensing papal and Vatican imagery for collector markets in Europe and Asia. The Vatican itself has no involvement in authorizing these coins; Solomon Islands holds the issuing authority entirely.
Elizabeth II's effigy appears as a constitutional requirement, not by any diplomatic connection to Rome.