'World's Most Famous Ships' Complete Gold Collection

"Those, who stay at the shore, cannot discover new oceans"
Fernando Magellan

This collectors set is unique! Strictly limited to just 1000 complete editions, the set includes10 gold coins minted in finest solid gold (999/1000). Each gold coin honours one of the great ships of naval history. Just the historic aspect of this set is fascinating: the invention of seafaring isjust as significant as the invention of the wheel - from the first boats to sail ships and motor- and turbine driven ships. It is a fact: without navigation and these legendary ships, our civilisation would have developed very differently.

Set sail with the Royal British research ship HMS Beagle, which became famous when Charles Darwin, the founder of the evolution theory, came on board of the second expedition of this 90 foot Cherokee-class 10-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. The journey took 5 years and led via the Cape Verde Islands along the east and west coast of South America. Or let's sail even further: to the Pacific Ocean on board of the 'Bounty'... A further gold coin is dedicated to the 'Golden Hind', the ship of bucaneer Francis Drake, who circumnavigated the world in 1577 in the service of the British Crown as the first Englishman. Also commemorated are the 'HMS Victory', the biggest war ship of its time, and the even bigger 'Vasa', the Swedish galeon built by King Gustav II of Sweden.

The set contains:
Pamir
Santa Maria
HMS Victory
Mayflower
Mayflower HMS Beagle
Golden Hind
Vasa
Bounty
Fram
HMS Endeavour