Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Crown - Elizabeth II End of World War II
| Issuer | Isle of Man |
|---|---|
| Year | 2005 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 1 Crown |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | 60th ANNIVERSARY - END OF WORLD WAR II 1945 SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL 1 CROWN |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Issued to mark the sixtieth anniversary of VE Day, this crown falls within a long Isle of Man commemorative program that has produced silver crowns on virtually every major Allied anniversary since the 1990s. The island's wartime experience was sharply ambivalent: it housed several internment camps, most notably at Onchan and Ramsey, where thousands of enemy aliens — many of them Jewish refugees who had fled Nazi Germany — were detained under the wartime Defence Regulations. That irony has never been fully reconciled in official commemorative messaging.