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25 Dollars - Elizabeth II Year of the Dog
| Issuer | Central Bank of Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1977-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Solomon Islands has operated as a prolific vehicle for third-party bullion and commemorative programs since the 1970s, with the Central Bank licensing its name and currency denominations to foreign minting houses — principally European — that produce coins bearing no practical relationship to the islands' domestic economy. This piece, a 5-ounce silver round dressed as legal tender, was struck almost certainly in Poland or the Czech Republic under such an arrangement.
The Lunar Year of the Dog cycle it commemorates ran concurrently across dozens of issuing authorities in 2018, most competing for the same collector base.