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50 Pence - Elizabeth II Cheshire Cat, Silver Proof
| Issuer | Isle of Man Treasury |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Diameter | 27.3 mm |
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| Obverse description | Effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing the George IV State Diadem and the Victorian Coronation Necklace, as designed by Jody Clark. The legend 'QUEEN ELIZABETH II · ISLE OF MAN · 2021' encircles the portrait, with the engraver's initials 'JC' appearing below the truncation. The portrait is rendered in high relief against a polished field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Isle of Man has issued commemorative coinage under its own authority since 1709, though its modern collector program — prolific and occasionally chaotic — dates to the Pobjoy Mint era beginning in the 1970s. The Cheshire Cat issue draws on Lewis Carroll's 1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a work Carroll dedicated in part to Alice Liddell, whose family had connections to Christ Church, Oxford, where Carroll spent most of his academic life. The KM#1701a designation places this within a silver proof variant struck alongside a base metal circulation type — standard practice for Manx commemoratives of this period.