5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Cicones

The Cicones were a Thracian people whose single significant appearance in ancient sources comes from the Odyssey: Odysseus sacked their city of Ismarus on his way home from Troy, lost six men from each ship in the counterattack, and the episode set the tone for the disasters that followed. They are otherwise historically obscure, leaving almost no archaeological or numismatic trace in antiquity. The Solomon Islands issued this piece as part of a broader series tying Pacific sovereign authority to Greek mythological geography — a pairing with no geographic or cultural logic beyond the collector market.