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20 Dollars
| Issuer | Solomon Islands Monetary Authority |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Reverse description | A central intaglio vignette occupies the left-centre field, showing a group of traditional Solomon Islands warriors in ceremonial dress advancing in procession, with a slit-drum log in the foreground. To the right stands a large decorated ceremonial drum or shield rendered in fine engraving against a plain field, framed by a geometric guilloche border panel. The left margin carries a tall ornamental column in blue and red, and the denomination numeral '20' appears at lower right within the dark brown border. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Solomon Islands Monetary Authority was a transitional institution — it handled currency issuance from independence in 1978 until the Central Bank of Solomon Islands was formally established in 1983. This note belongs to that brief window. De La Rue supplied all denominations of the inaugural series, a standard arrangement for newly independent Pacific states that lacked domestic printing infrastructure.
The single security feature — a watermark — reflects the modest specification budget typical of first-issue contracts with newly formed monetary authorities in the late 1970s.