1 Crown - Elizabeth II Curling, Silver Proof

Issued by the Pobjoy Mint on behalf of the Isle of Man, which has long maintained its own independent coinage rights under the Crown despite not being part of the United Kingdom proper. The island's mint relationship with Pobjoy produced a decades-long run of topical sports and commemorative issues, particularly aggressive in targeting collector markets around Olympic and winter sports cycles. This piece corresponds to the lead-up to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.

The Isle of Man's curling commemoratives are a niche within a niche — KM#1545 exists in multiple composition variants struck simultaneously for different market tiers.