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50 Cents - Charles III Augustus
| Issuer | Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2026 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1977-date) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed right-facing effigy of King Charles III occupying the central field, rendered in gold relief against a coloured red background. The portrait, engraved by Dominique Thiébaut and initialled 'DT' in the lower right field, depicts the monarch in a naturalistic contemporary style with collar and jacket visible at the truncation. The circular legend 'CHARLES III · 2026 · SOLOMON ISLANDS' arcs around the upper periphery, while the denomination '50 CENTS' appears in the lower exergual area, all lettering in raised gold characters. |
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| Reverse description | Front-facing laureate bust of the Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar occupying the central field, rendered in gold relief against a coloured red background featuring radiating sunburst lines and stylised wave motifs. The emperor is depicted wearing a laurel wreath and draped in a toga, in the manner of classical Roman portraiture. A decorative wreath of laurel branches frames the inner border on both sides of the field. The legend 'AUGUSTUS' arcs along the upper periphery, while the dates '27 BCE - 14 CE', denoting his reign, appear in the lower segment of the inner circle. |
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Charles III Augustus of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld served as the last Elector Palatine before the office was extinguished by Napoleon's reorganization of German territories in 1803. He never ruled the Solomon Islands, obviously — this is a modern commemorative issue capitalizing on his name's coincidental overlap with the current British monarch, a marketing conceit that serious collectors tend to find transparent.