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| Issuer | Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 1978 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1977-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | CORONATION JUBILEE 1953-1978 5 DOLLARS |
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The Solomon Islands gained independence from Britain in July 1978, making this issue something of a political curiosity — a newly sovereign nation choosing its first commemorative subject to be the 25th anniversary of the monarch it had just formally separated from. The coronation jubilee theme was shared across dozens of Commonwealth and former-Commonwealth mints that year, most using the same occasion to navigate the same awkward transition between colonial deference and national identity.