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5 Pence - Elizabeth II Golf ball and clubs, Silver
| Issuer | Isle of Man |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Diameter | 18 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | ISLE OF MAN ELIZABETH II 1994 |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Isle of Man's Treasury has long exploited the territory's fiscal autonomy to produce collector-oriented issues well outside the constraints of Royal Mint policy. This 1994 five pence belongs to a sustained series of themed circulating and semi-circulating denominations that the Isle of Man issued throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, many struck in multiple metals simultaneously — the base circulation version and a .925 silver variant sharing identical dies.
The golf theme is locally appropriate: the island hosts several historic links courses, and the Castletown Golf Links, laid out in 1892, ranks among the oldest in the British Isles.