Queen Elizabeth II presented the Bicentennial Bell to Philadelphia during the United States’ 1976 anniversary celebrations.
The bell was a gift from the people of Britain to the people of the United States. Queen Elizabeth presented it in Philadelphia on July 6, 1976, during the royal visit connected with the Bicentennial. It was designed as a replica of the Liberty Bell and cast at the same Whitechapel Bell Foundry in London.
The Bicentennial Bell bears the inscription “For the People of the United States of America from the People of Britain 4 July 1976” and the words “Let Freedom Ring.” It is not the original Liberty Bell, which has its own colonial history and famous crack. The gift symbolized the two countries’ shared historical connection after the American Revolution.