This was the first Flamingo coin I bought, about 4 years ago. It is a brilliant uncirculated coin. I wanted to get the silver proof, I think it was 1976, but the older coin in much better. And it had the effigy of Elizabeth II that I love!

Flamingos are the National Bird of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. Bahamas continued on with this reverse forever, well to the 1980.

The coin, as designed here, was first minted by the London Mint 1966- 1967, then by the London and Llantrisant Mints in 1970, finally by the Franklin Mint in 1971 to 1973. The succeeding coins from 1974 to 1980 had the Bahamas National arms in the obverse and the two flamingos on the reverse. They stopped minting the silver coins in 1980.

It is made of .925 silver, and a crown size coin at 40.00 mm in diameter, larger than the other coins that I have depicting flamingos. Numismatically, the term "crown-sized" is used generically to describe large silver or cupro-nickel coins of about 40 mm in diameter. Most Commonwealth countries still issue crown-sized coins for sale to collectors.

The engraver for both the obverse and reverse of the coin is Arnold Machin.