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1 Crown - Elizabeth II Pinks
| Issuer | Isle of Man Government |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Currency | Pound (decimalized, 1971-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Two flower fairies depicted in a charming illustrative style inspired by Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies series. A tall female fairy standing at left, with delicate wings spread, presents a stem of pinks to a smaller fairy at right who reaches upward to receive the bloom. Both figures stand upon a naturalistic ground line, rendered with fine engraved detail to their petal-formed garments and gossamer wings. The word PINKS appears in the left field, with the denomination 1 CROWN inscribed in two lines along the lower exergue. |
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The Isle of Man Treasury issued a sustained run of themed crown pieces throughout the 1990s targeting the collector market directly, bypassing circulation almost entirely. This particular issue commemorates pink-themed subjects — almost certainly referencing the Pink Panther or a floral/botanical series, though KM#612 sits in a densely packed sequence of Manx crowns from this period where the Treasury was producing upwards of a dozen distinct commemorative types per year.
Without confirmed subject matter on record, the safest observation is archival: these pieces were legal tender on the island but never intended to spend.