Bermuda 25 cents Elizabeth II 2nd portrait, Bermuda lil, random year white tail

Description

Country Bermuda
Queen Elizabeth II (1952-date)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 1970-1985
Value 25 Cents
0.25 BMD = 0.25 USD
Currency Dollar (1970-date)
Composition Copper-nickel
Weight 5.92 g
Diameter 24 mm
Thickness 1.6 mm
Shape Round
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
References KM# 18, Schön# 18
Obverse
Crowned bust facing right
Lettering: BERMUDA ELIZABETH II
Engraver: Arnold Machin
Reverse
White-tailed Tropic bird in flight, denomination in letters above, date below. The species that occurs in Bermuda, Phaethon lepturus catsbyii is the Western Atlantic sub-species of Phaethon lepturus, which is globally distributed. Threatened by introduced predators and habitat destruction, it is curently actively protected.
Lettering:
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS
1970
Engraver: Michael Rizzello
Edge
Milled
See also
Bird
[...] the coat of arms for the Bermuda Company (a version of which was adopted as the country's official coat of arms in 1910). A red lion holds the scene of the wreck in his paws beneath the Latin inscription Quo fata Ferunt, or "whither the Fates carry [us]." That phrase, taken from Virgil's Aeneid, would become the official motto for Bermuda.