1972 The BAHAMAS SILVER 2 Dollars Large Coin Elizabeth II FLAMINGO Birds i57154

Description

Item:
i57154
Authentic Coin of:
The Bahamas
1972 Silver 2 Dollars 40mm (29.12 grams) 0.925 Silver (0.885 oz. ASW)
Reference: KM# 23
COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMA ISLANDS ◦ ELIZABETH II ◦, Bust of Queen Elizabeth  right.
TWO DOLLARS 1972, The national bird, 2 flamingos.
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Flamingos
or
flamingoes
are a type of
wading bird
in the
family
Phoenicopteridae
, the only family in the order
Phoenicopteriformes
. There are four flamingo  species in the Americas and two species in the
Old World
.
Etymology
Flamingo
comes from
Portuguese
or
Spanish
flamengo
, "flame-colored", in  turn coming from
Provençal
flamenc
from
flama
"flame" and Germanic-like suffix
-ing
, with a possible influence of words  like
Fleming
. A similar etymology has the Latinate Greek term
Phoenicopterus
(from
Greek
:
φοινικόπτερος
phoinikopteros
),  literally "blood red-feathered".
The  Bahamas
, officially the
Commonwealth of the Bahamas
, is an
archipelagic state
of the
Lucayan Archipelago
consisting of more than 700
islands
,
cays
, and
islets
in the
Atlantic Ocean
; north of
Cuba
and
Hispaniola
(
Haiti
and the
Dominican Republic
); northwest of the
Turks and Caicos Islands
; southeast of the US  state of
Florida
and east of the
Florida Keys
. Its capital is
Nassau
on the island of
New Providence
. The designation of "The  Bahamas" can refer to either the country or the larger island chain that it  shares with the
Turks and Caicos Islands
. As stated in the  mandate/manifesto of the
Royal Bahamas Defence Force
, the Bahamas  territory encompasses 470,000 km
2
(180,000 sq mi) of ocean space.
The  Bahamas were the site of
Columbus
' first landfall in the
New World
in 1492. At that time, the islands  were inhabited by the
Lucayan
, a branch of the
Arawakan
-speaking
Taino
people. Although the Spanish never  colonised the Bahamas, they shipped the native Lucayans to slavery in  Hispaniola. The islands were mostly deserted from 1513 until 1648, when
English
colonists from
Bermuda
settled on the island of
Eleuthera
.
The Bahamas became a
British
Crown colony
in 1718, when the British clamped  down on
piracy
. After the
American War of Independence
, the Crown  resettled thousands of
American Loyalists
in the Bahamas; they brought  their slaves with them and established plantations on land grants. Africans  constituted the majority of the population from this period. The Bahamas became  a haven for freed African slaves: the
Royal Navy
resettled Africans here liberated  from illegal slave ships;
American slaves
and Seminoles escaped here from  Florida; and the government freed American slaves carried on United States  domestic ships that had reached the Bahamas due to weather. Slavery in the  Bahamas was abolished in 1834. Today
the descendants of slaves and free Africans
make up nearly 90% of the population; issues related to the slavery years are  part of society.
The Bahamas became an independent
Commonwealth realm
in 1973, retaining
Queen Elizabeth II
as its monarch. In terms of
gross domestic product
per capita, the Bahamas  is one of the richest countries in the
Americas
(following the United States and  Canada). Its economy is based on tourism and finance.
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