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3 Dollars - Elizabeth II Hunter galley, Gold Proof Issue
| Issuer | Bermuda |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Diameter | 15 mm |
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| Reverse description | Central depiction of the historic sailing vessel Hunter Galley under full sail, rendered in fine detail within the Reuleaux triangular field. A stylized hog, emblematic of Bermuda's early colonial history, appears alongside the ship. The circumferential legend reads HUNTER GALLEY and the historical date Anno Domini 1752, commemorating the year the vessel was built, with the denomination THREE DOLLARS completing the inscription around the design. |
| Reverse script | Latin, Latin (cursive) |
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The Hunter galley commemorated here was an early 17th-century vessel central to one of the more remarkable survival stories in English colonial history. When the Sea Venture wrecked on Bermuda's reefs in 1609, stranded colonists built two replacement pinnaces from Bermudian cedar — the Deliverance and the Patience — to continue on to Virginia. The Hunter was a later vessel in that same tradition of island-built craft, reflecting how thoroughly Bermudians came to rely on locally constructed galleys for inter-island and coastal trade.
Bermuda's three-dollar denomination has no circulation counterpart; it exists solely as a collector vehicle.