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25 Dollars - Elizabeth II Columbus predicting lunar eclipse
| Issuer | British Virgin Islands |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Value | 25 Dollars (25 USD) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | $25 FM |
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This coin commemorates Columbus's calculated use of a lunar eclipse on February 29, 1504, during his fourth voyage. Stranded on Jamaica and facing starvation after local Arawak people stopped supplying his crew, Columbus consulted his almanac — Regiomontanus's Ephemeris — which predicted the eclipse. He warned the Arawak that God would punish them with a blood moon, and when it arrived on schedule, they capitulated immediately. The crew was provisioned until rescue came in June 1504.