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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Coronation
| Issuer | Bermuda Monetary Authority |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Obverse lettering | BERMUDA ELIZABETH II RDM 1996 |
| Reverse description | Conjoined busts of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, shown facing forward in full coronation regalia, each wearing the Imperial State Crown, against a polished proof field. The couple is depicted in formal coronation dress with decorative orders and robes finely detailed in relief. A dotted inner border frames the central design, with the curved legend QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER arcing along the upper periphery and THE CORONATION OF GEORGE VI inscribed in a secondary arc below. The commemorative date 1937 appears above the lower legend TEN DOLLARS, which is placed prominently at the base. |
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The Bermuda Monetary Authority issued this piece to mark the 1953 coronation's 43rd anniversary — an interval that fits no conventional commemorative logic, selected instead because 1996 was the 30th anniversary of Bermudian independence from British monetary control and the establishment of the BMA itself. The pairing of gold and silver in a bonded bimetallic composition at these specific fineness ratios was characteristic of a brief window in the 1990s when several Commonwealth mints experimented with the format before production costs killed the practice.