1 Crown - Elizabeth II 1st portrait 1964

Weight

22.62 g

Diameter

36.1 mm

Thickness

2.7 mm

Material

Silver (.500)

Shape

Round

Edge Type

Reeded

Technique

Milled

Front design

Crowned bust of Queen Elizabeth II facing right.

Back design

Lion holding the coat of arms of Bermuda (the ship wreck "Sea Venture") divides date.

Year of Minting

1964

Queen

Elizabeth II ( 1952-2022 )

Mint location

NA

Mint mark

NA

Orientation

Medal alignment ↑↑

Inscriptions

Obverse: ELIZABETH·II·DEI·GRATIA·REGINA Reverse: ONE BERMUDA CROWN 19 64 GC QUO FATA FERUNT

Context

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 ("where destiny leads 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

Rarity

Common

Coin type

Standard circulation

In circulation

No

Demonetized

Yes

Marketplace listings

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