Bermuda 1987 5 dollars

Stack's Bowers February 2024 Collector's Choice sale, lot 73688

This specimen was lot 73688 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2024), where it sold for $144 The catalog description^[1] noted, "BERMUDA. 5 Dollars, 1987. Elizabeth II. GEM PROOF. Commemorating the Sea Venture Shipwreck. Deeply mirrored fields and satiny devices. In original box of issue. Attractive." This NCLT accompanied a palladium 25 dollars (KM 53). Wikipedia comments,

"Sea Venture was a seventeenth-century English sailing ship, part of the Third Supply mission to the Jamestown Colony, that was wrecked in Bermuda in 1609....Sea Venture's wreck is widely thought to have been the inspiration for William Shakespeare's 1611 play The Tempest."

Recorded mintage: 6,800.

Specification: 155.51 g, 0.999 fine silver, 65 mm diameter, 5 troy oz ASW.

Catalog reference: KM-54.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, February 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.

Link to:

• 1986 5 cents
• 1986 dollar, Green Sea Turtle, World Wildlife Fund
• 1987 25 dollars, wreck of the Sea Venture, 1 oz palladium
• 1988 25 cents
• 1988 5 dollars, wreck of the San Antonio, 5 oz silver
• 1988 25 dollars, wreck of the San Antonio, 1 oz palladium
• Coins and currency dated 1987