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50 Dollars - Elizabeth II Pearl Harbor
| Issuer | Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Weight | 15.608 g |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II SOLOMON ISLANDS 1991 |
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| Reverse lettering | 50th ANNIVERSARY PEARL HARBOR 1941-1991 · 50 DOLLARS · |
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Issued on the fiftieth anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, this coin is one of several commemoratives Solomon Islands produced during the early 1990s leveraging its Pacific War geography for international collector markets. The Solomons had direct and devastating involvement in that conflict — Guadalcanal saw some of the bloodiest fighting of the Pacific theater between August 1942 and February 1943, making the issuer's connection to the broader Pearl Harbor narrative geographically legitimate, if temporally adjacent.