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1 Crown - Elizabeth II Norbert hatches
| Issuer | Isle of Man |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Weight | 28.28 g |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette depicting characters from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series: Harry Potter, Rubeus Hagrid, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley are shown observing Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback dragon hatching from its egg, a scene inspired by the first novel. The denomination 1 CROWN and the series title HARRY POTTER appear as legends within the design. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The "Norbert hatches" crown is part of the Isle of Man's long-running series commemorating the Manx Loaghtan sheep, a native four-horned breed that had declined to fewer than fifty animals by the 1950s before a concerted conservation effort reversed its trajectory. Norbert was apparently a named individual animal — a practice consistent with the breed's recovery program, where individual animals were tracked closely. The Isle of Man's crown series has been issued in extraordinary volume and variety since the 1970s, largely driven by collector demand rather than circulation.