50 Pence - Elizabeth II Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, colourised

Issued as part of the Isle of Man's long-running series of licensed commemoratives, this piece draws from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass (1871), where Tweedledee and Tweedledum appear as mirror-image antagonists staging a quarrel that was never finished. Carroll based the characters on a pre-existing nursery rhyme mocking two composers — Georg Friedrich Handel and Giovanni Bononcini — whose rivalry had been satirized in an epigram by John Byrom in 1725.

The colourised variant, KM#1699.1, was struck alongside an uncolourised counterpart.