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| Issuer | Central Bank of Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2023 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II · 2023 · SOLOMON ISLANDS IRB · 50 CENTS · |
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Issued under a licensing arrangement with Disney, this piece belongs to a category of legal-tender collectibles that Pacific island minting programs have leaned on heavily since the 1990s — low face-value coins with no realistic circulation expectation, produced entirely for the philatelic and novelty collector market. The Solomon Islands' actual monetary circulation runs on the dollar, and 50-cent denominations of this type never reach a bank teller.
Struck as a posthumous Elizabeth II issue, it falls into a brief transitional window in which several Commonwealth-affiliated mints and licensing bodies continued using her effigy on new collector releases authorized after her death in September 2022.