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50 Cents - Charles III Supermarine Spitfire
| Issuer | Central Bank of Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2026 |
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| Value | 50 Cents 0.50 SBD = RSD 6.31 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST FLIGHT SUPERMARINE SPITFIRE |
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The Supermarine Spitfire entered RAF service in 1938, but it was the desperate summer of 1940 — when Fighter Command was losing pilots faster than training schools could replace them — that fixed the type permanently in British memory. Production was deliberately dispersed after the Luftwaffe destroyed the Supermarine works at Southampton in September of that year, scattering manufacturing across garages, bus depots, and requisitioned factories across southern England.
Gold-plated iron issues of this kind are notoriously prone to edge chipping where the plating meets the substrate.