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250 Dollars - Elizabeth II The Burning of the Bounty
| Issuer | Pitcairn Islands |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Currency | Dollar of New Zealand (1988-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The burning of HMS Bounty on 23 January 1790 was a deliberate act ordered by Fletcher Christian to prevent any possibility of the mutineers being found and returned to British justice. The ship was run aground and set alight in what is now called Bounty Bay, directly below the cliffs of Pitcairn Island. Nine mutineers, six Tahitian men, and eleven Tahitian women had arrived just weeks before — Pitcairn itself had been mischarted by a full degree of longitude, which is precisely why Christian chose it.
Pitcairn began issuing collector coinage in the 1980s largely because it has almost no other export economy. The 1990 series marks the bicentennial of the settlement.