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50 Dollars - Charles III Gardens of Babylon
| Issuer | Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2024 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | CHARLES III · SOLOMON ISLANDS · 100g $50 Au 999 · |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Hanging Gardens of Babylon present a persistent numismatic challenge: no contemporary Babylonian source confirms they ever existed within Babylon's city limits. The most credible recent scholarship, led by Stephanie Dalley of Oxford, argues the gardens were actually constructed by the Assyrian king Sennacherib at Nineveh in the early 7th century BC — misattributed to Babylon by later Greek writers who had never seen them.
Solomon Islands issues gold of this weight class almost exclusively for the bullion and collector export market; no 100-gram piece circulates domestically.