Pobjoy Mint Releases New Silver Sterling Coin Featuring 'Cutty Sark'
Monday, August 19, 2019 9:33:05 AM Europe/London
The private British Pobjoy Mint has commemorated the 150th anniversary of the Launch of the Cutty Sark with a new sterling silver coin featuring the magnificent Cutty Sark. Issued on behalf of British Indian Ocean Territory, the new coin has a limited mintage of only 2000 pieces.
The reverse of the new coin features the magnificent British Clipper ship, Cutty Sark, which was built on the River Clyde in 1869. The reverse includes the inscriptions "The Cutty Stark," and double dates "1869-2019". It also shows the monetary denomination of the coin, 2 pounds.
The obverse displays an effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Cutty Sark was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, coming at the end of a long period of design development, which was when sails started to be substituted for steam.
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