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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Beauty and the Beast
| Issuer | Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Value | 2 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, wearing a tiara and with hair elaborately styled, after the portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley. The peripheral legend reads ELIZABETH II to the left and SOLOMON ISLANDS across the top, with the denomination 2 DOLLARS to the right. The date 2014 appears in the lower field, and the engraver's initials IRB are incuse below the truncation of the portrait. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The Solomon Islands has become one of the more prolific issuers of licensed Disney themed bullion and collector pieces, a program driven entirely by secondary market demand rather than domestic circulation needs. These coins are legal tender in name only — struck by external mints under license and never intended to see the archipelago's cash economy.
The 1991 animated film drew heavily from Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont's 1756 literary version of the tale, itself a sanitized retelling of Villeneuve's far darker 1740 original.