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50 Dollars
| Issuer | Central Bank of Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Value | 50 Dollars |
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| Obverse lettering | SOLOMON ISLANDS THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR FIFTY DOLLARS IN SOLOMON ISLANDS CENTRAL BANK OF SOLOMON ISLANDS TO LEAD IS TO SERVE |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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| Comments |
The 1996 series marked a significant redesign for Solomon Islands paper currency, with Thomas De La Rue producing the notes under contract — a long-standing arrangement that the Central Bank maintained through much of the post-independence period. De La Rue's involvement was not merely technical; the design work was produced in-house at their London facility rather than adapted from an earlier colonial plate.
For a $50 denomination in a small Pacific island economy, security features are notably minimal — watermark only, with no metallic thread. This was not unusual for De La Rue's lower-budget Pacific contracts of the period, where cost constraints dictated specification.