Solomon Islands, an island nation in the South Pacific Ocean, is located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean and belongs to the Melanesian Islands. It is 1600 km from Australia to the southwest, 485 km to the west to Papua New Guinea, and across the sea from Vanuatu to the southeast, and is a member of the British Commonwealth. There are more than 990 islands with a land area of 28,400 square kilometers and an exclusive marine economic zone area of 1.6 million square kilometers. Population 600,000 (2018)
Discovered and named by the Spaniards in 1568, North Solomon became a German protectorate in 1885, transferred to Britain in the same year, Solomon established the "British Solomon Islands Protectorate" in 1893, and in 1942, the Solomon Islands were occupied by the Japanese army, after which the island became a strategic point repeatedly contested by the U.S. army and the Japanese army in the Pacific Theater, renamed the Solomon Islands in June 1975, the Solomon Islands implemented internal autonomy in 1976, and the Solomon Islands became independent and became a member of the British Commonwealth in 1978.
Solomon Islands is one of the least developed countries in the world, with the majority of the population living on farming, fishing and farming, the national economy dominated by farming, fishing and gold extraction, and most of the manufacturing and petroleum products dependent on imports.
The Solomon Islands originally used the Australian dollar and issued its own coin in 1977, with the main coin 1 Solomon Dollar equal to 100 cents.) The name of the coin is in English Solomon Islands, and it has a portrait of the Queen of England and an ethnic figure. There are coins in circulation; 1,2,5,10,20,50 points; 1 yuan
2005 edition of 7 coins
Commemorative coin for the 10th anniversary of independence in 1988