Great Britain: 2020 gold 100-pounds, Mayflower 400th Anniversary commemorative, first day of issue

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It certainly knocks a Krugerrand or Britannia into second place @lordmarcovan , what a spectacular coin and a great familial association.

 

I love sailing ships too on coins (mentioned that recently in another thread).
Those MayFlower coins are my favorite modern sailing ship coin.

 

Very cool indeed!

 

A beautiful coin and special to you because of your family connection to it. I suppose your Pilgrim commemorative would also have a special place in your collection.

Bruce

 

While I don't have a Mayflower coin my wife is a direct descendant of a Mayflower crew member named Peter Brown. My Mother is a direct descendant of "Roger Williams who was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay colony for his views on the separation of state and religion and fair treatment of native Americans. He was a founder of the Providence Plantation/Rhode Island and the American Baptist Church. He later left the Baptist Church and organized religion and became a "seeker" not identifying with any specific church." Wikipedia.

 

Beautifull coin! UK still makes "old style" coin designs, not the horrible modernistic kitch.

 

I sold most of my Classic Commemoratives last spring. I kept: Isabella, Lafayette, Hawaiian, Pan Pac half, $1.00 and $2.50. Perhaps I should get Sue a Pilgrim as it's her family that was on the boat.

 

The US did issue a gold reverse proof coin and some silver medals for the occasion. We got the one oz silver version of your gold coin design here with a silver medal. Granted not a coin. But I bought them from the mint at that time and have them.
The post office put out a special stamp with the Mayflower on it for the occasion too. I bought a couple sheets of them.

 

Mayflower 400th Anniversary Program

The US MInt website though doesn't directly reference this set, though stated "The Royal Mint design, made as gold and silver coins" This set was sold as a Silver Proof set and a Gold proof set:

 

To be fair, there was a lot of other stuff going on in 2020...

 

What's interesting is they aren't even in the Red Book. At least the last one I got the 2024.

 

Yeah that's pretty awesome what they did with your 1 oz gold. It's like regular proof on the obverse and reverse proof, reverse. I don't know any other example like that.