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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II European Football Championship, Silver Proof
| Issuer | Isle of Man Treasury |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Engraver(s) | Raphael David Maklouf |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1996 - Proof |
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The 1996 UEFA European Championship was hosted by England — the first time the tournament had been held there since its inaugural edition in 1960 — and generated an enormous wave of commemorative issues across British and Crown dependencies. The Isle of Man Treasury was characteristically aggressive in exploiting that market, producing licensed numismatic issues tied to major sporting events throughout the 1990s as a deliberate revenue strategy rather than any organic monetary necessity.
KM#587a is the silver proof variant in what was a tiered issue, with a base metal version struck alongside it for broader distribution.