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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Alvaro Mendana de Neyra
| Issuer | Central Bank of Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Reference(s) | KM# 105 |
| Obverse description | Right-facing crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, after the third portrait by engraver Raphael David Maklouf, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, drop earrings, and a necklace. The hair is elaborately styled in curled waves beneath the jewelled crown. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the left periphery and SOLOMON ISLANDS along the right, with the date 1994 positioned in the lower field. The engraver's initials RDM appear incuse at the base of the truncation. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II SOLOMON ISLANDS RDM 1994 |
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Álvaro de Mendaña led two Pacific expeditions for Spain, but never lived to see his stated goal realized. On his second voyage in 1595, he located the Marquesas and Santa Cruz Islands yet failed to find the Solomons he had discovered in 1568 — dying of fever at Santa Cruz before the fleet turned back. The Solomon Islands as a colonial entity wouldn't be formally established until British protectorate status in 1893, more than three centuries after Mendaña first charted the archipelago.