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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Coronation of King George VI
| Issuer | Bermuda |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar |
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| Reverse description | The central silver inner field features conjoined busts of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (the future Queen Mother) in coronation regalia, both wearing Imperial State Crowns, based on the official 1937 coronation portrait. The date 1937 appears in the exergue below the effigies, while the inner legend THE CORONATION OF GEORGE VI arcs above within a beaded border. The gold-plated outer ring carries the commemorative legends HM THE QUEEN MOTHER'S CENTENARY, flanked by the dates 1900 and 2000, with the denomination 1 DOLLAR inscribed at the base. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1900 HM THE QUEEN MOTHER'S CENTENARY 2000 THE CORONATION OF GEORGE VI 1937 1 DOLLAR |
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Issued thirty-three years after the fact, this coin commemorates the 1937 coronation of George VI — the accession that only occurred because his brother Edward VIII abdicated in December 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson. Bermuda's connection to the Crown made such issues routine by 2000, when the Royal Mint and associated Commonwealth mints were producing bimetallic commemoratives at volume for the collector market.
The gold-plated outer ring is a feature of the 28.28g bimetallic format that became near-ubiquitous in Commonwealth commemorative issues of the late 1990s.