Bahamas 1976 50 dollars
This specimen was lot 73067 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2022), where it sold for $216. The catalog description[1] noted, "BAHAMAS. 50 Dollars, 1976. Elizabeth II. NGC PROOF-70 Ultra Cameo. AGW: Independence anniversary - tobacco dove commemorative. This beautiful cameo issue offers sharp contrast between razor sharp mirrored fields and frost devices." This NCLT was struck 1974-77, probably by the Franklin Mint, tho it is not mintmarked. Wikipedia comments, "The common ground dove (Columbina passerina) is a small bird that inhabits the southern United States, parts of Central America, the Caribbean and northern South America. It is considered to be the smallest dove that inhabits the United States." There is a subspecies, C. p. bahamensis (Maynard, 1887) which inhabits Bermuda and most of the Bahamas.
Recorded mintage: 2,207 + proofs.
Specification: 2.73 g, 0.917 fine gold, 17 mm diameter, 0.0805 troy oz AGW.
Catalog reference: Fr-21; KM-69.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The February 2022 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancients & World Coins, Featuring Selections from the Kings Norton Mint Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
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