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| Issuer | Isle of Man Treasury |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | A dynamic stumping scene is depicted in high relief against a mirror-polished field, showing a wicketkeeper's gloved hands breaking the wicket, with the three stumps and two dislodged bails prominently rendered. A cricket ball is shown in flight above the stumps. The ICC Cricket World Cup logo, featuring the trophy design with the legend ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP ENGLAND & WALES 2019, appears to the lower left of the field. The denomination FIFTY PENCE is inscribed in bold lettering along the upper arc of the coin. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Isle of Man Treasury has issued cricket-themed 50 pence pieces since 1997, exploiting the island's status as a Crown Dependency with its own currency authority — a quirk that allows Manx coinage to exist entirely outside UK monetary policy while remaining legal tender locally. The 2019 stumping issue belongs to a longer-running series commemorating cricket that has attracted collector interest well beyond the island's population of roughly 85,000.
The .925 silver proof iteration was struck in limited numbers for collector sale, never intended for circulation. KM#1645a distinguishes this composition variant from the base metal circulation strike catalogued separately.