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2 Dollars - Charles III Mouse King
| Issuer | Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Value | 2 Dollars |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is fully colorized and depicts Charles III, the Mouse King from the Nutcracker ballet, rendered as an anthropomorphic mouse standing in a triumphant pose. The figure wears a bejewelled royal crown, a blue military jacket with gold epaulettes and elaborate scrollwork trim, a red and white striped undershirt, and a sweeping ermine-trimmed purple royal cape. He holds a drawn sword at his side, conveying regal authority. The design fills the entire shaped planchet contour, which follows the outline of the Mouse King's form, with no additional legends or inscriptions on the reverse. |
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The Mouse King — the villain of E.T.A. Hoffmann's 1816 novella Nutcracker and Mouse King — became far more culturally embedded through Tchaikovsky's 1892 ballet adaptation than through the original text. Solomon Islands has become a reliable vehicle for exactly this kind of licensed pop-cultural bullion: low sovereign relevance, high collector appeal, .9999 fine silver at one troy ounce.