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50 Cents - Elizabeth II For Heroes and Horses
| Issuer | Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, as designed by Ian Rank-Broadley, wearing a diamond diadem and drop earring, with the engraver's initials IRB visible below the truncation. The peripheral legend reads ELIZABETH II · 2020 · SOLOMON ISLANDS, with the denomination · 50 CENTS · inscribed along the lower arc of the heptagonal field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The "For Heroes and Horses" series commemorates the working horses of World War I — animals that served in artillery haulage, cavalry, and supply lines across multiple fronts, with the British Army alone requisitioning over 165,000 horses in the first weeks of the war. A century on, the Solomon Islands has become a reliable vehicle for this kind of low-mintage commemorative, issuing coins with no domestic circulation relevance under licensing arrangements that effectively make the islands a mint-mark-of-convenience for the international collector market.