1 Crown - Elizabeth II Winston Churchill

Issued the year before the Churchill centenary (his birth year being 1874), this Isle of Man crown was part of a broader wave of Commonwealth commemoratives tied to the hundredth anniversary of his birth. The Isle of Man's crown series was then still relatively new as a collector vehicle — the island only began issuing distinctive commemorative crowns in the early 1970s following its new constitutional relationship with the Crown under the Isle of Man Purchasing Act arrangements. The .925 silver version, catalogued separately from the cupro-nickel circulation strike, was produced specifically for the collector market.