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1 Crown - Elizabeth II Year of the Tiger, Silver Proof
| Issuer | Isle of Man Government |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Value | 1 Crown |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II after the third portrait by Raphael David Maklouf, depicted with a pearl necklace, drop earring, and the George IV State Diadem. The bust is draped and rendered with fine detail against a deeply mirrored proof field. The surrounding legend reads ELIZABETH II to the upper left and ISLE OF MAN to the right, with the date 1998 positioned at the lower right, separated by a raised dot. The engraver's initials RDM appear incuse at the base of the truncation. |
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| Reverse description | Central design features a boldly rendered bust of a tiger facing three-quarters left, mouth slightly open to reveal its teeth, with detailed fur striping and an intense gaze, executed in a style reminiscent of traditional Chinese brush painting. To the upper right of the tiger's head, a vertical column of Chinese calligraphic characters is inscribed in the field, accompanied by the Pobjoy Mint privy mark (PM) and a decorative seal-script cartouche below. The denomination numeral 1 appears within a small cartouche at the base of the inner circle, flanked by the legend YEAR OF THE TIGER arching across the top and CROWN along the bottom of the border. |
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The Isle of Man Treasury has issued lunar calendar crowns since the early 1980s, well ahead of most competing mints, making their series one of the longest-running in the genre. The 1998 Tiger issue falls in the middle of a productive period when the Pobjoy Mint — the island's contracted striking facility — was aggressively courting the Asian collector market, particularly in Hong Kong, in the years immediately surrounding the handover to China.
KM#816a denotes the silver proof; the base metal version was struck in far greater numbers and circulated nominally on the island.