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1/10 Crown - Elizabeth II Blue British Short Hair Cat
| Issuer | Isle of Man Treasury |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, depicted as an uncouped bust adorned with the George IV State Diadem. The portrait is rendered in refined relief characteristic of Pobjoy Mint coinage. The sovereign's legend encircles the effigy along the periphery, with the date incorporated into the inscription. The initials 'RDM PM' appear in the field, denoting the designer and mint. |
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| Reverse description | A Blue British Shorthair cat depicted in right profile, grooming itself by cleaning its paws, rendered in fine naturalistic detail. The background features birds in flight, evoking an outdoor setting. A triskeles motif within a shield appears prominently at the top of the field, serving as the heraldic symbol of the Isle of Man. A decorative platform occupies the lower right, upon which the cat stands. The purity, metal, and denomination inscription is arranged along the lower portion of the design. |
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The Isle of Man's annual cat coinage program, running continuously since 1988, has become one of the longer-lived bullion series in British Crown dependency issues — unusual in that the reverse design changes every year, preventing the series from settling into the monotony that plagues most fractional gold programs. The 1999 issue depicts the Blue British Shorthair, a breed whose modern standardization owes largely to post-WWII reconstruction efforts after the variety was nearly bred out of existence through wartime crossings with Persians and Blues.
At 3.11g of .9999 fine gold, this fraction mirrors the standard tenth-ounce specification adopted across competing programs from Perth and the Royal Mint. Mintage figures for individual years in this series were not always formally published by the Isle of Man Treasury.