5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Giuseppe Verdi

Verdi died in Milan in January 1901, and the city reportedly spread straw on the cobblestones outside his hotel to muffle the sound of passing horses so as not to disturb him in his final hours. This coin was issued in 2013 to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth — part of a broader wave of commemorative silver struck by Pacific island jurisdictions whose connection to the subject is purely commercial.