Catalog
100 Dollars
| 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 description | The national flag of the Solomon Islands is displayed to the left of centre, flanked by the Coat of Arms at centre, rendered in multicolour intaglio against a guilloche underprint in warm ochre and brown tones. A latent image optically variable element appears at the right, printed in blue with repeated numeral '100' microprint. The dominant denomination numeral '100' appears in large letterpress at upper right and lower left, with the legal tender inscription in English across the centre field. |
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| Protection description | the national emblem visible when held to light; embedded security thread running vertically through the note; optically variable latent image element at right of obverse with repeated '100' microtext changing colour with viewing angle. |
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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.