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50 Cents - Elizabeth II Arch Rivals
| Issuer | Central Bank of Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Engraver(s) | Ian Rank-Broadley |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, after the portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, whose initials IRB appear below the truncation. The peripheral legend reads ELIZABETH II · 2021 · SOLOMON ISLANDS in raised Latin characters, interrupted by dot separators, arcing around the upper and lateral fields of the heptagonal flan. The denomination 50 CENTS is inscribed in the lower field below the portrait. |
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| Mintage | 2021 - Prooflike - 999 |
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The "Arch Rivals" series from the Solomon Islands sits in a well-established tradition of Pacific island nations licensing their sovereignty to third-party minting operations — in this case producing low-cost gold-plated iron novelty pieces aimed squarely at the themed collectibles market rather than numismatic circulation. The Solomon Islands 50-cent denomination has no meaningful role in the domestic economy at this face value.
Iron as a coin substrate is almost never used by serious sovereign mints; it corrodes under plating failures and has a noticeably different heft than bronze or steel.