100 Dollars

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.