50 Cents - Charles III Marmaduke Pattle

Marmaduke Pattle remains one of the most debated Allied aces of the Second World War — RAF records credit him with at least 15 confirmed kills, though some historians push the figure above 40, making the discrepancy one of the larger unsettled questions in Commonwealth aviation history. He was killed over Athens in April 1941 during the chaotic Greek campaign withdrawal, almost certainly due to exhaustion after flying multiple sorties in a single day while already ill.

The Solomon Islands has issued numerous gold-plated commemoratives in this format as part of broadly licensed numismatic programs with limited direct territorial connection to the subject matter.