The first in the 2022 Heritage Sports series from the Solomon Islands, the hockey set features a pair of half-ounce pure silver coins meticulously shaped like a hockey stick and puck. 
The word "hockey" is widely believed to stem from the French hoquet, meaning "shepherd’s crook," a nod to the game's hooked sticks. The modern sport likely evolved from traditional European stick-and-ball games, such as hurley and shinty, which were carried across the Atlantic by early immigrants to the North American colonies.