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30 Dollars - Elizabeth II Sea Venture
| Issuer | Bermuda Monetary Authority |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#D156 |
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| Obverse lettering | BERMUDA ELIZABETH II IRB 2006 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Sea Venture was the flagship of a nine-vessel resupply fleet bound for the struggling Jamestown colony when it was deliberately run aground on Bermuda's reefs during a hurricane in July 1609. All 150 passengers and crew survived, spent ten months on the island building two smaller vessels from Bermudian cedar, and eventually continued to Virginia — but the wreck effectively founded permanent settlement in Bermuda. William Strachey's account of the disaster is widely regarded as a primary source for Shakespeare's The Tempest.
The Bermuda Monetary Authority has returned to the Sea Venture subject repeatedly across gold issues, making die and finish variants worth cross-referencing against earlier KM listings before cataloging as singular.