Catalog
20 Dollars
| Issuer | Solomon Islands Monetary Authority |
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| Year | 1984 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | A vignette at left centre shows a group of traditional warriors in ceremonial dress engaged in a procession or dance, rendered in intaglio engraving. To the right, a large decorative drum and an intricately patterned woven textile panel are set against a fine guilloche background. The denomination numerals "20" appear in each upper corner and at lower right, with the words "Twenty Dollars" in script at centre. |
| Reverse lettering | SOLOMON ISLANDS TWENTY DOLLARS |
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The Solomon Islands Monetary Authority issued this note during a period when the country was still finding its monetary footing — independence had come only in 1978, and the SIMA was itself a transitional body, replaced by the Central Bank of Solomon Islands just two years after this series appeared. Thomas De La Rue's involvement was the norm for newly independent Pacific island states throughout the 1970s and 1980s; the London firm printed for dozens of emerging central banks simultaneously, and the Solomon Islands relationship was no exception.
P#12 is the sole 20-dollar type from the SIMA period, making it a short-lived denomination within an already short-lived issuing authority.