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5 Shillings - George III Medallic / INA Retro Issue
| Issuer | Isle of Man (British Crown dependencies) |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Reverse description | The triskeles of the Isle of Man — three armoured and spurred legs radiating from a central boss — is depicted at the centre of an outlined cartographic representation of the island. The denomination 5s. appears to the left of the central device, while the retroactive date 1808 is inscribed below, accompanied by a small heraldic ship motif. The circular Latin legend QVOCVNQVE IECERIS STABIT (Whithersoever you throw it, it will stand) encircles the central design, with the words distributed around the periphery in spaced capitals and separated by small triskelion ornaments. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The INA Retro series was produced by the International Numismatic Agency specifically to recreate historical British coin types in collectible form, issued under Isle of Man authority as a legal fiction that granted them legitimate issuing status without obligating the Royal Mint. George III crown-sized pieces are a natural subject — the original milled silver crowns of his reign were among the most technically ambitious productions of the late 18th-century British monetary system, largely driven by Matthew Boulton's steam-powered presses at Soho.
The X# prefix in the Krause catalog designates medallic issues — legally coins, practically souvenirs.