50 Cents - Charles III Liberation of the Netherlands

Issued to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands, this piece commemorates the Allied campaigns of late 1944 and early 1945 that pushed German forces from Dutch territory — a process that was neither swift nor clean, leaving the western Netherlands under occupation until May 1945 and a famine, the Hongerwinter, that killed an estimated 20,000 civilians in the final winter of the war.

The Solomon Islands has no historical connection to these events. Its mint authority issues commemoratives of this type purely as collectibles for the European market.