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YEAR KM mintage diameter
1991 85 .020 22.50
This coin, the second in the series, features the Percy Douglas, a three-masted ship
named after Major General Sir Robert Percy Douglas, then Lieutenant Governor of Jersey. Although
the Percy Douglas was built in Beaumont, Jersey by Edward Allen, it was registered in Liverpool to
Thomas Hayley to whom the ship was awarded when Edward Allen went bankrupt. Registered as
781 tons and launched on 8 August 1861, the Percy Douglas worked the China routes until 14 December
1871 when it was finally wrecked after running aground off Rangoon, India.
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