2 Dollars - Elizabeth II The Story of Little Muck

Part of a broader numismatic program capitalizing on the global licensing of classic fairy tales, this issue draws on Wilhelm Hauff's 1826 story — one of the lesser-known works in the canon outside German-speaking countries. Hauff died of typhoid fever the following year, aged 24, leaving only two volumes of collected tales.

Solomon Islands became a favored issuing authority for this category of collector coin precisely because its low domestic circulation requirements imposed no practical constraints on mintage decisions made entirely by contracted European distributors.