10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Coronation

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.