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| Issuer | Central Bank of Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2006-2009 |
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| Value | 100 Dollars |
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| Obverse lettering | SOLOMON ISLANDS 100 THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS IN SOLOMON ISLANDS 100 100 Governor Secretary, Finance |
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| Reverse lettering | 100 SOLOMON ISLANDS 100 One Hundred Dollars 100 |
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The P#30 series replaced the earlier $100 issued under the same authority, arriving during a period when the Solomon Islands were still heavily dependent on Australian Federal Police and regional assistance following the RAMSI intervention of 2003 — a stabilization mission triggered by years of ethnic conflict and state near-collapse known locally as "The Tensions." That the central bank could issue a high-denomination note at all by 2006 was itself a measure of how much institutional function had been restored.
Thomas De La Rue's inclusion of optically variable ink on a Pacific island note of this period was not universal across the region — several comparable Pacific issuers were still using simpler security packages well into the 2000s.