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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Diamond Wedding Anniversary - Royal Yacht Britannia
| Issuer | Cayman Islands |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Engraver(s) | Ian Rank-Broadley |
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| Obverse lettering | CAYMAN ISLANDS ELIZABETH II IRB 2007 |
| Reverse description | A finely detailed three-quarter bow view of the Royal Yacht Britannia underway at sea, rendered in high relief against a mirror-field background. Multiple signal flags and halyards are depicted on the masts, with a British ensign flying from the masthead at upper centre. The names ELIZABETH and PHILIP arc along the upper periphery in a curved legend, flanking the central flagstaff, while the denomination TEN DOLLARS is inscribed in the lower exergue. |
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The Royal Yacht Britannia was decommissioned in December 1997 after 44 years of service — a decision made by the Major government on cost grounds and not reversed by Blair, despite considerable royal displeasure reported at the time. Elizabeth II and Prince Philip had used Britannia for their 1953 honeymoon voyage to Tonga and throughout their marriage for both state and private travel, making it a genuine biographical thread across the sixty years this coin commemorates. The Cayman Islands, as a British Overseas Territory, issued commemorative silver with some regularity through the Royal Mint during this period.