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Bahama Islands Coins (7 Coins) – Elizabeth II Set of 1966
You get a set containing: a Silver Dollar, a Silver 50 Cent, a Silver Quarter, a 15 Cent, Silver 10 Cent, a Aluminum 5 Cent, and a Copper Cent.
This unique set of Bohemian coins, totaling a treasure of
seven coins which were struck in 1966, all featuring Queen Elizabeth II. The set comes in a plastic sheaf to preserve its condition.
THE DOLLAR IS:
1966 Silver Dollar 34mm (17.93 grams) 0.800 Silver (0.4666 oz. ASW)
Reference: KM# 8
ELIZABETH II BAHAMA ISLANDS, Bust of the Queen Elizabeth II turned to the right.
ONE · DOLLAR ·, Conch shell (Strombus alatus) above garland, year.
THE 50 CENTS IS:
1966 Silver 50 Cents 29mm (10.31 grams) 0.800 Silver (0.2667 oz. ASW)
Reference: KM# 7
COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMA ISLANDth
S · ELIZABETH II ·, Crowned bust of young UK queen Elizabeth II right.
FIFTY CENTS Blue Marlin fish (Istiophorus albicans), year below.
THE QUARTER IS:
1966 Nickel 25 Cents 24.26mm (6.90 grams)
Reference: KM# 6
ELIZABETH II BAHAMA ISLAND, Bust of the Queen Elizabeth II turned to the right.
TWENTYFIVE CENTS 1966, A Bahamian sailboat.
THE 15 CENT IS:
1966 Copper Nickel 15 Cents 25mm (6.50 grams)
Reference: KM# 19
COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMA ISLANDS · ELIZABETH II ·, Bust of the Queen Elizabeth II turned to the right.
· · · FIFTEEN 1966 CENTS · · ·, Hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis).
THE 10 CENT IS:
1966 Copper Nickel 10 Cents 23.5mm (5.54 grams)
Reference: KM# 4
ELIZABETH II BAHAMA ISLANDS, Bust of the Queen Elizabeth II turned to the right.
1966 TEN CENTS,Two Bonefish (Albula vulpes).
THE 5 CENT IS:
1966 Copper Nickel 5 Cent 21mm (3.13 grams)
Reference: KM# 3
ELIZABETH II BAHAMA ISLANDS, Bust of the Queen Elizabeth the II turned to the right.
FIVE CENTS 19 66, Pineapple (Ananas comosus) above garland.
THE CENT IS:
1966 Nickel Brass Cent 22.5mm (4.16 grams)
Reference: KM# 2
ELIZABETH II BAHAMA ISLANDS, Bust of the Queen Elizabeth II turned to the right.
ONE CENT · ·1966, Starfish.
You are bidding on the exact item pictured, provided with a Certificate of Authenticity and Lifetime Guarantee of Authenticity.
 Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926[a]) is, and has been since her accession in 1952, Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and Head of the Commonwealth. She is also Queen of 12 countries that have become independent since her accession: Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.[b]
Elizabeth was born in London to the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and was the elder of their two daughters. She was educated privately at home. Her father acceded to the throne on the abdication of his brother Edward VIII in 1936, from which time she was the heir presumptive. She began to undertake public duties during World War II, serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. In 1947, she married Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, with whom she has four children: Charles, Anne, Andrew, and Edward.
Elizabeth’s many historic visits and meetings include a state visit to the Republic of Ireland and reciprocal visits to and from the Pope. She has seen major constitutional changes, such as devolution in the United Kingdom, Canadian patriation, and the decolonisation of Africa. She has also reigned through various wars and conflicts involving many of her realms. She is the world’s oldest reigning monarch as well as Britain’s longest-lived. In 2015, she surpassed the reign of her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, to become the longest-reigning British monarch and the longest-reigning queen regnant in world history.
Times of personal significance have included the births and marriages of her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, her coronation in 1953, and the celebration of milestones such as her Silver, Golden and Diamond Jubilees in 1977, 2002, and 2012, respectively. Moments of sadness for her include the death of her father, aged 56; the assassination of Prince Philip’s uncle, Lord Mountbatten; the breakdown of her children’s marriages in 1992 (her annus horribilis); the death in 1997 of her son’s former wife, Diana, Princess of Wales; and the deaths of her mother and sister in 2002. Elizabeth has occasionally faced republican sentiments and severe press criticism of the royal family, but support for the monarchy and her personal popularity remain high.
  The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, is an archipelagic state of the Lucayan Archipelago consisting of more than 700 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean; north of Cuba and Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic); northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands; southeast of the US state of Florida and east of the Florida Keys. Its capital is Nassau on the island of New Providence. The designation of “The Bahamas” can refer to either the country or the larger island chain that it shares with the Turks and Caicos Islands. As stated in the mandate/manifesto of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force, the Bahamas territory encompasses 470,000 km2 (180,000 sq mi) of ocean space.
 The Bahamas were the site of Columbus’ first landfall in the New World in 1492. At that time, the islands were inhabited by the Lucayan, a branch of the Arawakan-speaking Taino people. Although the Spanish never colonised the Bahamas, they shipped the native Lucayans to slavery in Hispaniola. The islands were mostly deserted from 1513 until 1648, when English colonists from Bermuda settled on the island of Eleuthera.
The Bahamas became a British Crown colony in 1718, when the British clamped down on piracy. After the American War of Independence, the Crown resettled thousands of American Loyalists in the Bahamas; they brought their slaves with them and established plantations on land grants. Africans constituted the majority of the population from this period. The Bahamas became a haven for freed African slaves: the Royal Navy resettled Africans here liberated from illegal slave ships; American slaves and Seminoles escaped here from Florida; and the government freed American slaves carried on United States domestic ships that had reached the Bahamas due to weather. Slavery in the Bahamas was abolished in 1834. Today the descendants of slaves and free Africans make up nearly 90% of the population; issues related to the slavery years are part of society.
The Bahamas became an independent Commonwealth realm in 1973, retaining Queen Elizabeth II as its monarch. In terms of gross domestic product per capita, the Bahamas is one of the richest countries in the Americas (following the United States and Canada). Its economy is based on tourism and finance.
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