Country: Bermuda, Queen Elizabeth II (1952-date)
Type: Standard circulation coin
Years: 1964
Value: 1 Crown = 5 Shillings (0.25)
Currency: Pound Sterling (1158-1970)
Metal: Silver (.500)
Weight: 22.5 g.
Diameter: 36 mm
Grade: MS/UNC
Mintage: 470,000
Orientation: Medal alignment ↑↑
Shape: Round
References: KM# 14
Obverse:
Crowned bust of Queen Elizabeth II facing right
Lettering: ELIZABETH·II·DEI·GRATIA·REGINA
Engraver: Cecil Thomas
Reverse:
Lion holding the coat of arms of Bermuda (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.
Referenz : KM# 14
Quelle : https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1...
Sammlung : Elizabeth II - Queen of the United Kingdom (1952-2022)