Bermuda, Bermuda, temp. Elizabeth II, a positive model for a rev. of an uncertain denomination [perhaps a Crown], ship above map, compass and founding date 1609, 195mm. Very fine, of the highest rarity (£100-150)

Plate 2. Nothing seems known about this unusual piece, which would appear to date to the time when a crown to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the first settlement on Bermuda was first mooted in 1957. In the event the Bermuda crowns, dated 1959 but struck and issued in 1958, bear a reverse designed by Norman Sillman