The replica bell presented in Philadelphia during the 1976 United States Bicentennial was called the Bicentennial Bell.
Queen Elizabeth II presented the bell on July 6, 1976, on behalf of the British people. It commemorated the 200th anniversary of American independence and linked the earlier Bicentennial with the historical relationship between Britain and the United States.
The bell was cast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, the same London foundry associated with the original Liberty Bell. It is therefore a replica, not the historic Liberty Bell that rang in Philadelphia and later became an American symbol.
Its inscription reads, in part, “For the People of the United States of America from the People of Britain.” The 1976 bell provides a notable precedent for the civic and international symbolism surrounding America250.