5 Dollars - Elizabeth II British European Union Membership Referendum

Issued in the year of the Brexit referendum, this piece commemorates one of the more consequential votes in post-war British history — the June 2016 decision in which 51.9% of UK voters chose to leave the European Union, ending over four decades of membership dating to accession in 1973. Solomon Islands, as a Commonwealth realm, had no formal stake in the outcome, making its role here purely that of a licensing issuer for the bullion commemorative market.

The coin was produced under the broad authority Solomon Islands extends to third-party minting programs — a common revenue arrangement among smaller Commonwealth nations with limited domestic minting infrastructure.