1 Crown - Elizabeth II Coronation of King George VI

Struck thirty-three years after the death of George VI, this 2000 issue commemorates a coronation that took place in 1937 — a ceremony thrust upon an unprepared Duke of York after his brother Edward VIII abdicated to marry Wallis Simpson. The BBC's live radio broadcast of that coronation reached an estimated audience of 400 million worldwide, the largest in history to that point.

The KM#1027b designation places this among several concurrent variants struck in different metal compositions, a practice the Isle of Man Mint leaned on heavily through the 1990s and 2000s to maximize collector revenue from single commemorative subjects.