3 Dollars - Elizabeth II Hunter galley, Gold Proof Issue

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.