What replica bell did Queen Elizabeth II present in Philadelphia during the 1976 Bicentennial?

Queen Elizabeth II presented the Bicentennial Bell in Philadelphia during the 1976 United States Bicentennial.

The British people gave the bell to the United States, and Queen Elizabeth presented it during her July 1976 state visit. It was designed as a replica of the Liberty Bell, the famous Philadelphia symbol associated with American independence.

The Bicentennial Bell was cast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, the same London foundry that cast the original Liberty Bell. Its inscription expressed friendship between the people of Britain and the people of the United States and included the phrase “Let Freedom Ring.”

The bell should not be confused with the original Liberty Bell, which dates from the eighteenth century and remains in Philadelphia. The Bicentennial Bell was a twentieth-century commemorative gift created specifically for the 1976 anniversary.