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10 Pence - Elizabeth II 4th portrait
| Issuer | Isle of Man Government |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Value | 10 Pence |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, rendered in the fourth definitive portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley. The queen's mature likeness is depicted with fine detail in the hair and diadem. The circular legend reads ISLE OF MAN to the upper left and ELIZABETH II to the upper right, with the date 1998 positioned below the bust at the bottom of the field. The engraver's initials IRB appear beneath the truncation of the neck. |
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| Obverse lettering | ISLE OF MAN ELIZABETH II 1998 |
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The Isle of Man has historically used its currency as a vehicle for frequent, sometimes annual design changes — an approach that kept the island's coinage commercially interesting to collectors but created cataloging headaches for specialists. The 4th portrait of Elizabeth II, modeled by Ian Rank-Broadley and adopted across most Commonwealth territories from 1998, made its Isle of Man appearance in the same year as its wider rollout, unusually prompt for a dependency that often took its own timeline with portrait updates.