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1 Pound - Elizabeth II Triskelion on map, 925 Silver Proof
| Issuer | Isle of Man |
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| Year | 1978-1982 |
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| Currency | Pound (decimalized, 1971-date) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Alternating plain and reeded sections (3 each) |
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The Isle of Man gained full control over its own coinage with the Coinage Act of 1971, and through the 1970s the Manx Treasury pushed aggressively into the collector market with annual proof sets — an early and commercially shrewd move for a jurisdiction of fewer than 60,000 people. The triskelion issue in silver was part of that sustained program rather than any single commemorative impulse.
KM#44a covers a five-year span, meaning the same dies served multiple years' proof production with only date changes.