-40%
Bermuda 1 silver Crown coin and a 1 dollar banknote
$ 21.12
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Description
1 Crown - Elizabeth II1st portrait
© Monéphil
Features
Country
Bermuda
Type
Standard circulation
coin
Year
1964
Value
1 Crown = 5 Shillings (0.25
LSD
)
Metal
Silver (.500)
Weight
22.62 g
Diameter
36 mm
Shape
Round
Orientation
Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized
yes
References
KM
# 14
Obverse
Crowned head right
Lettering:
ELIZABETH·II·DEI·GRATIA·REGINA
Engraver:
Cecil Thomas
Reverse
Lion holding the coat of arms of the Bermuda with a ship wreck, divides date.
Lettering:
ONE BERMUDA CROWN
19 64
GC
QUO FATA FERUNT
Translation:
Where fate said
Engraver:
George Kruger-Gray
Edge
Reeded
Comments
The Sea Venture, a resupply vessel bound for Virginia, is shown crashing into an outcropping of rock in this detail from a map of Bermuda printed in Amsterdam in 1640 by the cartographer William Janzon Blaeu. Diverted by a hurricane in July 1609, the ship and its passengers lived on the Bermuda Islands for ten months before finally making it to Jamestown. An English colony was later established in Bermuda.
[...] the coat of arms for the Bermuda Company (a version of which was adopted as the country's official coat of arms in 1910). A red lion holds the scene of the wreck in his paws beneath the Latin inscription Quo fata Ferunt, or "whither the Fates carry [us]." That phrase, taken from Virgil's Aeneid, would become the official motto for Bermuda.
http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/media_player?mets_filename=evm00002900mets.xml
Dollar Banknote:
Front: Queen Elizabeth II
The
back
bears a picture of Bermuda's maritime background.
Bermudian
dollar banknotes are
printed
by De la Rue