100TH ANNIVERSARY OF RMS TITANIC 2012 1OZ SILVER (Tuvalu)

PROOF COIN

Mintage :5000

Sailing into collectable history is our tribute to the centenary of theTitanic. This is great news forovers of marine history and Titanic aficionados. It was the world’s most famous passenger ship isaster. On a cold, moonless night just before midnight, the ‘unsinkable’ RMSTitanic struck an iceberg. Moments before impact, lookout Frederick Fleet peered into the darkness in horror at the approach of a menacing black shape. With the icy monolith just yards away, his alarm initiated frantic efforts to slow the ship and change course. They proved fruitless. Over the next few hours, an estimated 1,517 doomed souls met their watery fate in the freezing waters of the North Atlantic. The grave of RMS Titanic, resting deep in the North Atlantic, remains a memorial to those that lost their lives, and a testament to those who bore the lifelong sorrow of that loss. The coin’s reverse depicts a coloured representation of the White Star Line’s poster design of Titanic, set against the ocean and sky. The inscriptions TITANIC, 100TH ANNIVERSARY and The Perth Mint’s ‘P’ mintmark are also incorporated into the design.