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10 Dollars
| Issuer | Central Bank of Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Size | 147 × 74 mm |
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| Obverse description | A portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in intaglio occupies the right portion of the note, with a traditional Solomon Islands carved artifact vignette positioned to her left and a fish motif rendered in pale underprint at centre. Two facsimile signatures of the Governor and Director of the Central Bank appear below the legal tender inscription. The design is executed predominantly in violet-pink tones, with decorative guilloche patterns and traditional carved-motif imagery along the lower border. |
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| Obverse lettering | SOLOMON ISLANDS THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR TEN DOLLARS IN THE SOLOMON ISLANDS CENTRAL BANK OF SOLOMON ISLANDS Governor Director |
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The Solomon Islands gained independence from Britain in 1978, and the Central Bank was established the same year to replace the British Solomon Islands dollar at par. This 1984 note belongs to the first substantive series issued under the new central bank's authority — the groundwork series, in practical terms, before the islands had developed much in the way of indigenous design direction. De La Rue printed almost everything coming out of newly independent Pacific territories in this period, and the execution here is competent but unremarkable.
Watermark-only security reflects the modest anti-counterfeiting requirements of an economy this small. Sophisticated forgery was simply not an operational concern.