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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Poetry
| Issuer | Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | Full-color reproduction of Raphael's allegorical figure of Poetry (La Poesia) from the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican, depicting a winged female figure seated among clouds, wearing a laurel crown and white and blue robes, holding a golden lyre in her right hand and a book in her left. Two putti flank her, each holding a tablet bearing the Latin inscription 'NVMINE AFFLATUR' (meaning 'inspired by divine power'). The fineness mark '.999 Ag' appears in the upper left field, and the word 'POETRY' is incised in the uncolored silver exergue at the base of the coin. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued under the Royal Australian Mint's broader Pacific commemorative program, this piece is part of a wave of themed collector silver that flooded the market in the mid-2010s as central banks across the Pacific sought licensing revenue from numismatic sales rather than circulation coinage. The Solomon Islands, which uses the Australian dollar in practice for many transactions, has issued far more collector coins than its domestic monetary needs would ever require.
KM# 700 is a low-mintage issue with no recorded circulation use — purely a philatelic-numismatic product.