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2 Pence - Elizabeth II - Red-Billed Chough
| Issuer | Pobjoy Mint |
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| Year | 1980-1983 |
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| Value | 2 Pence |
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| Reverse description | A boldly rendered Red-billed Chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) depicted in dynamic mid-flight, wings fully spread and tail fanned, filling virtually the entire field in a stylised yet naturalistic manner engraved by Leslie Lindsay. The bird's distinctive curved bill and splayed primary feathers are rendered with fine detail against a deeply mirrored proof field. Decorative Celtic-inspired foliate scrollwork frames the composition, intertwining around the bird and continuing to the lower portion of the field. The denomination numeral '2' appears in an ornate stylised script at the base, integrated into the decorative scrollwork. No peripheral legend is present on the reverse. |
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| Reverse lettering | 2 |
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Pobjoy Mint produced this platinum variant of the Isle of Man 2 pence as part of a deliberate bullion and specimen strategy — the same design was struck simultaneously in bronze, silver, and gold, with platinum representing the apex of a tiered collector program unusual for a coin of this face value. The .950 fineness was Pobjoy's house standard for platinum issues of this period, not a Royal Mint specification.
Mintage figures for the platinum strikes were never widely published and remain difficult to verify, but all evidence points to genuinely small production runs across the 1980–1983 window.