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1000 Dollars - Elizabeth II Michael Schumacher
| Issuer | Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the George IV State Diadem, as designed by Ian Rank-Broadley, his initials IRB appearing below the truncation. The surrounding legend reads ELIZABETH II to the left, SOLOMON ISLANDS across the top, and 1000 DOLLARS to the right, all in raised Latin lettering along the coin's periphery. The date 2019 appears in the lower field beneath the portrait. The bust is finely detailed with realistic rendering of the Queen's hair and jewellery, characteristic of the fourth definitive portrait used on Commonwealth coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II SOLOMON ISLANDS 1000 DOLLARS IRB 2019 |
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This piece belongs to a wave of oversized commemorative gold issues that proliferated through Pacific island jurisdictions in the 2010s — Solomon Islands among the most prolific, licensing its coining authority to European minting houses targeting collector markets with no meaningful connection to the issuer nation. The coin's legal-tender status is nominal at best.
Schumacher suffered a severe traumatic brain injury in a skiing accident in the French Alps in December 2013, and had been out of public life for nearly six years by the time this was struck.