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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II The Nude Maja
| Issuer | Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Technique | Milled, Colored, Inlaid |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II SOLOMON ISLANDS 5 DOLLARS IRB 2015 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Francisco Goya painted La Maja Desnuda sometime between 1797 and 1800, making it one of the earliest Western paintings to depict a nude female subject with no mythological justification — a distinction that earned him a summons before the Spanish Inquisition in 1815. The Solomon Islands issued this coin under a broader licensed series of art-themed bullion pieces that proliferated through Pacific island minting programs in the 2010s, largely produced by European private mints for collector export rather than any domestic circulation purpose.
The sapphire insert places this within a subset of the series where colored stones were used to accent specific compositional elements of the original painting.