50 Pence - Elizabeth II Peter Pan at the window

The Isle of Man has issued commemorative 50 pence pieces prolifically since the 1970s, exploiting its status as a Crown dependency with its own currency authority to produce collector-targeted issues largely disconnected from circulation needs. J.M. Barrie set Peter Pan partly in the London of Edwardian nurseries, but the character's legal afterlife is tied to Great Ormond Street Hospital, to which Barrie bequeathed the copyright in 1929 — a bequest that generated royalties for decades until UK copyright expired in 1987.