3273) Here’s a Chance To Find Some “Lost” Treasure: A $5 Silver Coin from Bardados takes on back in time to the days of the Pirates of the Caribbean/Golden Age of Piracy:
Located in the Eastern Caribbean, Barbados is a popular vacation destination with more than a million tourists visiting the continental island each year for its idyllic weather and relaxing beaches.
Long before throngs of tourists descended on the island from their armada of cruise ships, a different kind of armada cruised nearby in the form of Spanish galleons loaded with silver and gold plundered from the New World.
Many of those ships never made it home and today, scores of shipwrecks are strewn across the bottom of the Caribbean Sea and the Western Atlantic.
Whether they were sunk by storms or by marauding pirates, those shipwrecks probably have chests full priceless treasure.
Here one can secure a fabulous modern-day coin released by Barbados that features just such a scenario with a design dedicated to sunken treasure lost at the bottom of the ocean!
A Numismatic Scavenger Hunt For Pirate Treasure
One look takes one back to this $5 legal-tender coin and transports one on a numismatic scavenger hunt for pirate treasure!
Struck in two ounces of highly pure 99.9% fine silver, it shows a sunken treasure chest with coins spilling out across the sea floor.
In the background is a ghostly looking shipwreck, a battered helm, and several sea creatures.
This innovative coin has also been selectively plated with 0.2 grams of 99.9% pure gold to make the coins in its design really stand out.
Imagine stumbling across a treasure such as this while talking an evening stroll on one's Caribbean vacation!
And to make the design even more impressive, the coin comes in gorgeous Proof-Like (PL) condition that features a brilliant and reflective finish.
Pirates Of The Caribbean Who Called Barbados Home.
Who could this treasure chest have belonged to?
Barbados is known for two famous pirates of the Caribbean: Sam Lord and Stede Bonnet.
Lord made his fortune by hanging lanterns near his castle on the southeastern coast of Barbados. At night, ships mistook the lanterns for the lights of the island’s capital city and wrecked on the reefs. Known as the pirate gentleman, Bonnet was a former British officer who used the profits of his Barbados plantation to purchase his own ship—the Revenge—and set out on a career of piracy that saw him capture and burn several ships before retiring.
Talked out of retirement by the infamous Blackbeard, who wanted the Revenge for himself, Bonnet was eventually captured and hung in 1718.
Just 499 of these 2024 dated Barbados Coins Have Been Struck which are selling fast!
- $5 Two-Ounce Silver Ocean’s Lost Treasure Proof-Like Coins have been struck for worldwide release and each will come beautifully housed in a presentation case that looks like an actual treasure chest!
- Pirates who once flew their menacing “skull and crossbones” flags would have given their eye patch, bandana, and parrot for one of these coins.
- Here one can acquire this “lost” treasure for one's own personal collection without risking a long walk on a short plank!
The Reverse shows a treasure chest with Gold coins - COIN HIGHLIGHTS:
A PIRATE’S CHEST OF PLUNDERED TREASURE – This coin takes you on a scavenger hunt for pirate treasure. It shows a sunken treasure chest with coins spilling out across the sea floor. In the background is a ghostly looking shipwreck, a battered helm, and several sea creatures.
The coin’s Obverse shows the Barbados Coat of Arms.
- INNOVATIVE SILVER COIN WITH PURE GOLD APPLICATION –
- Each Ocean’s Lost Treasure Coin was struck in two ounces of highly pure 99.9% fine silver and then selectively plated with 0.2 grams of 99.9% pure gold.
- LEGAL-TENDER COIN – These 2024-dated Two-Ounce Silver Ocean’s Lost Treasure Coins are $5 legal tender in the island nation of Barbados and measure 55 mm in diameter.
- GORGEOUS PROOF-LIKE CONDITION – Your 2024 Barbados $5 Two-Ounce Silver Ocean’s Lost Treasure Coin will come in gorgeous Proof-Like (PL) condition.
- Go on a scavenger hunt for pirate booty from the comfort of your home with his 2024 Barbados $5 Two-Ounce Silver Ocean’s Lost Treasure Proof-Like Coin. Just 499 of these 99.9% silver coins have been struck so act fast!
Product Details
Availability
In Stock
Year of Issue
2024
The specifications of this Coin are:
- Country: Barbados; Metal Composition: Gold, Silver
Purity
0.999; Coin Quality: Condition
Proof-Like; Denomination: 5.00; Currency Type: Dollar
Coin Weight: 62.207 Grams - g
or 2 Ounces - oz; Dimensions: 55mm; © All rights reserved.
Barbados 2024 $5 2oz Silver Ocean's Lost Treasure Proof-like Coin.
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