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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Vitruvian Man
| Issuer | Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Composition | Silver (.999) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing diademed and draped effigy of Queen Elizabeth II after the portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, occupying the central field of the square flan. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the left border and SOLOMON ISLANDS along the right. The denomination $10 appears at the top, the date 2019 at the bottom, with 5 oz at lower left and Ag 999 at lower right. The engraver's initials IRB appear below the Queen's truncation. |
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| Reverse description | Central depiction of Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man rendered in gold-coloured relief, showing the ideally proportioned male nude figure simultaneously inscribed in both a circle and a square with arms and legs in two superimposed positions. The background field is engraved with facsimile mirror-script text replicating da Vinci's original handwritten annotations in Italian. A quotation attributed to Leonardo da Vinci appears in the legend: ART IS NEVER FINISHED, ONLY ABANDONED. |
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The Vitruvian Man drawing dates to around 1490 and survives in a single original sheet held at the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice — so fragile it is almost never displayed publicly. Leonardo's proportional study was itself derived from a passage in Vitruvius's first-century BC treatise De architectura, which described ideal human proportions in relation to temple geometry.
The Solomon Islands has no historical connection to the subject; the issuer here is purely nominal, a licensing arrangement common to the modern bullion collectible market. At 155.5 g of .999 silver, this is a five-troy-ounce piece.