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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 1992 Olympics
| Issuer | Bermuda Monetary Authority |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Thickness | 3.0 mm |
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| Obverse description | Third-portrait effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, crowned with the George IV State Diadem and wearing a pearl drop earring and pearl necklace, as modelled by Raphael David Maklouf. The engraver's initials RDM appear at the base of the truncation. The legend BERMUDA arcs along the left periphery and ELIZABETH II along the right periphery, all set against a deeply mirrored proof field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Bermuda had no athletic connection to the 1992 Barcelona Games significant enough to warrant this issue — the coin was produced as a straightforward bullion-adjacent commemorative for the collector market, a practice the Bermuda Monetary Authority leaned into heavily during the early 1990s. The authority issued a remarkable volume of silver commemoratives during this period, most with negligible circulation and strong export to American and European collectors.
KM#85 is one of several Olympic-themed dollars struck by non-participating or peripherally involved nations that flooded the market around Barcelona.