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1 Crown - Elizabeth II Willem Barents
| Issuer | Isle of Man Treasury |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Currency | Pound (decimalized, 1971-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Left-facing draped bust portrait of Dutch navigator and explorer Willem Barents occupying the left portion of the field, wearing a period Elizabethan ruff collar. To the right, a tall-masted sailing vessel is depicted beset among rocky ice-floes within a circular cartographic vignette inscribed BARENTS SEA. The legend WILLEM BARENTS 1550-1597 arcs across the upper field, with the denomination 1 CROWN appearing in the lower exergue. |
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Issued to mark the 400th anniversary of Willem Barents's death in the Arctic, this crown commemorates the Dutch navigator who led three expeditions in search of a Northeast Passage to Asia during the 1590s. Barents and his crew were forced to overwinter on Novaya Zemlya in 1596–97 — the first Europeans known to have survived an Arctic winter — sheltering in a hut built from their own ship's timber. Barents died on the return voyage in June 1597. The Isle of Man Treasury was prolific in issuing commemorative crowns throughout this period, often ahead of larger minting nations.