50 Pence - Elizabeth II Captain Hook, Silver Proof

The Isle of Man Treasury has issued commemorative 50p pieces with some regularity, but this 2019 Captain Hook issue sits within a broader Peter Pan licensing program the island pursued during the late 2010s, capitalizing on the character's copyright expiration under UK law — Barrie's works entered the public domain decades earlier, though Great Ormond Street Hospital retained a unique perpetual royalty right granted by Parliament in 1988, a legislative anomaly with no parallel in British copyright history.

J.M. Barrie bequeathed the rights to Peter Pan to Great Ormond Street Hospital in 1929. When standard copyright expired, Parliament intervened with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, granting the hospital a unique perpetual right to royalties on stage performances and published editions in the UK — an arrangement without precedent in British intellectual property law. The Isle of Man's commemorative program draws on characters now otherwise freely available.