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50 Dollars
| Issuer | Central Bank of Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Composition | Hybrid substrate |
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| Obverse description | Predominantly blue and green, the face of the note is dominated by a billowing national flag at centre, with the coat of arms at right flanked by fishing floats. The underprint is composed of intricate abstract guilloche patterning derived from traditional basket-weave motifs, evoking the swirling movement of fish shoals. A black horizontal serial number appears at upper left, with a red vertical serial number at right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a naturalistic vignette montage celebrating the biodiversity of the Solomon Islands, incorporating a shell, a Solomon Islands Skink, a Solomon Islands Spiny Monitor, a Solomon Islands Coralsnake, and fungi arranged across the composition. The imagery is rendered in rich polychrome tones against a complementary background underprint, drawing attention to the archipelago's distinctive endemic flora and fauna. |
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The 2013 series introduced hybrid substrate to Solomon Islands currency — a composite of paper and polymer layers developed by De La Rue under their DuraNote brand. The format was adopted partly in response to the Pacific climate, where high humidity accelerates the deterioration of conventional cotton-paper notes faster than in temperate-zone economies.
Pick 35 is notably light on published security features relative to what De La Rue typically applies to Pacific island issues of this denomination, with catalog records citing only the watermark — worth noting for authentication purposes.