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50 Cents - Charles III Ponsonby Sound
| Issuer | Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Value | 50 Cents |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | PONSONBY SOUND BEAGLE |
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Ponsonby Sound is a remote channel in the far south of Tierra del Fuego, named by Robert FitzRoy during the Beagle voyages of the early 1830s — the same expeditions that carried Charles Darwin. FitzRoy named numerous features of that coastline after British naval and political figures, and the Sound's namesake, Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby, was a distinguished Waterloo veteran who later served as Governor of Malta.
The Solomon Islands has issued coins referencing such geographically obscure British-named locations as a recurring series strategy, with legal tender status providing the technical justification for the denomination.