A display at the World Heritage Centre in St George’s highlights Bermuda’s link to the first US dollar coins.St George’s is the final resting place of renowned beauty Anne Bingham, who was immortalised more than 200 years ago as the first ‘Lady Liberty’ on US dollars.“Anne Bingham was the model for the first US coinage in the 1790s,” explained retired MP and Bermuda historian Rick Spurling, whose collection of old coins is now on loan to the St George’s Foundation.“She was described as the most beautiful woman in America. She died here in Bermuda in 1801 she was on a ship to the Canary Islands, because she was sick, but she got worse out at sea. The ship pulled in at St George’s, and she died four days later. She’s buried in St Peter’s Church graveyard.”Mr Spurling, a trustee of the Foundation, has spent two years hunting down coins online for his collection of the first American coins.“I began collecting them because of their relevance to St George’s,” Mr Spurling said. “The strong US connection will also be of interest to visitors as we start to get more tourists coming through.”Visitors to the museum can see a complete set of Anne Bingham bust coins, from the first ever US dollar (the ‘Flowing Hair Bust’ of 1795) to the Draped Liberty Half Cent of 1804.The exhibit includes portraits of Anne Willing Bingham (born in 1764), with historical information.Visitors to the World Heritage Centre can also see dollar forerunners, the Thaler (16th century), Dutch Dalder (1635), and the Spanish Pillar (1757) plus the modern dollar coin (2007).Useful web link: www.coinbooks.org