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50 Dollars - Elizabeth II 90th Anniversary of WWI
| Issuer | Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1977-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central design features a large, finely detailed relief of a poppy flower in full bloom, its petals radiating outward across the field in a bold sculptural composition. Overlaid across the entire field in smaller lettering is the fourth stanza of Laurence Binyon's poem 'For the Fallen', repeated three times in full. The prominent commemorative legend WE WILL REMEMBER THEM appears in large raised letters below the poppy, and the denomination $50 is inscribed within a recessed panel at the base of the design. |
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Solomon Islands issued this coin in 2008 to mark the 90th anniversary of the November 1918 Armistice, though the irony of the issuer is hard to ignore — the archipelago was not a combatant in WWI, and wouldn't become a battleground until the brutal Guadalcanal campaign of 1942–43. The Solomon Islands' numismatic program has long used commemorative silver to generate revenue, with themes bearing little direct connection to local history.
KM# 43 is a large-format five-ounce piece produced for the collector market and almost certainly never circulated.