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50 Dollars
| Issuer | Central Bank of Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2004 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The national arms of Solomon Islands occupies the central vignette, flanked to the left by the national flag and supported by a sea turtle and crocodile, with the motto TO LEAD IS TO SERVE at the base. The denomination numeral 50 appears in large format at lower left and as a latent-image element at right, set against intricate guilloche underprint in green and blue tones. Two facsimile signatures for the Governor and Secretary of Finance appear below the central vignette, with the legal tender inscription THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR FIFTY DOLLARS IN SOLOMON ISLANDS above. |
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| Protection description | the national arms visible when held to light; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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The 2004 Solomon Islands 50 Dollar note arrived just three years after the Townsville Peace Agreement formally ended the ethnic conflict known locally as "the Tension" — a period of civil unrest between 1998 and 2003 that severely disrupted government finances and nearly collapsed the Central Bank entirely. RAMSI, the Australian-led regional assistance mission, was still actively stabilizing the economy when this note entered circulation.
Thomas De La Rue has printed Solomon Islands notes continuously since the series began, and P#29 follows that unbroken relationship. Security on this issue is relatively modest by contemporary standards — watermark and thread only, with no optically variable ink.