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25 Dollars - Elizabeth II Posthumous, Year of the Rabbit
| Issuer | Central Bank of Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1977-date) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II after the fourth definitive portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, depicting the Queen wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, with hair arranged in elegant curls. The engraver's initials 'IRB' appear below the truncation of the bust. The circular legend reads 'ELIZABETH II · SOLOMON ISLANDS 2023 · 25 DOLLARS' around the upper field, while the lower field carries the inscriptions '· 1oz 9999 GOLD ·', all rendered in crisp proof relief against a mirror-polished field. |
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| Mintage | 2023 - Proof - 150 |
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Issued in the first full calendar year following Elizabeth II's death in September 2022, this piece sits in an odd transitional category — a posthumous royal portrait coin from a realm that had already begun debating its constitutional future. Solomon Islands had seen renewed republican sentiment in the early 2020s, making continued royal coinage a quiet political choice rather than a foregone conclusion.
The Lunar Series overlay grafts a Chinese calendrical tradition onto a Commonwealth issuer, a pairing driven entirely by bullion market demand in East and Southeast Asia.