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50 Cents - Elizabeth II Dilophosaurus
| Issuer | Central Bank of Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Full-body coloured depiction of a Dilophosaurus wetherilli in left-facing profile stance, rendered in naturalistic earth tones of brown, olive and rust-red markings, occupying the central field of the heptagonal flan. A stylised futuristic circular background motif in silver relief frames the scene. In the upper right quadrant, a circular coloured badge in deep red displays a white dinosaur footprint silhouette. Immediately below this badge, the species name DILOPHOSAURUS appears in a rectangular black label with white lettering. |
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The Dilophosaurus had its public image permanently distorted by Jurassic Park's 1993 depiction — the neck frill and venom-spitting were both fictional inventions by Michael Crichton with no paleontological basis. The actual animal, a Early Jurassic theropod first formally described by Samuel Welles in 1954 from Arizona specimens, was considerably more imposing in reality: roughly six meters long, making the film's small, frilled version a near-total fabrication.
Solomon Islands has issued dozens of these low-denomination dinosaur pieces across multiple years, largely targeting the collector novelty market rather than circulation.