Bermuda 5-CENTS (KM16)¶
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Reverse QUEEN ANGELFISH
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Obverse Queen Elizabeth II
- Composition
- Copper-Nickel
- Country
- Bermuda
- Approx. Size
- 21.5mm
- Area
- North America
- Animal Class
- Fish
- Species
- Queen Angelfish
- KM#
- 16
The Queen Angelfish is considered by some to be one of the most beautiful reef fish in the ocean. Their colour is bright iridescent blue and yellow, which is hard to depict on a coin. It has appeared on the 5-cent coin since Bermuda switched to decimal coins in 1970.
Bermuda¶
- Area
- North America
Bermuda is a very tiny island way out in the Atlantic Ocean. A shipload of British colonists were shipwrecked on the island in 1609, and spent 10 months there. Actually, they were pretty lucky considering how far they were from Virginia which is where they were going. It must have been a nice place, because a permanent British settlement followed three years later. Over 350 years after that, in 1968, the Bermudans were running the show themselves.
