Island of Man

the isle of man or "ellan vannin" to be more precise when using it's manx gaellic name, is one of the worst offenders for producing non circulating legal tender junk, but i agree the actual circulating coins are generally very artistic and pleasing on the eye.

 

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I have a number of Isle of Man coins in my collection, and they are really nice. I have some like yours too.

 

i have an example of every early manx coin up to 1845 and every circultaing coin and bank note since 1970, but i tend to pass on the christmas issues and of course the non circulating legal tender crap.

 

Joey Dunlop was one of the winningest racers to ever put two wheels there...he died there, along with 3 other family members in separate races.
Mike "The Bike" Hailwood came out of retirement in '78 and won the race in spectacular fashion...
It would be nice to see some commemorative coins to the motorcycle road racing thats been going on there for 100 years.....I mean the racers themselves on the coins.

The average speed record for the mountain course was recently made at just over 130mph.....racing inches away from rock walls, handrails, and even the doorways of private houses...

 

Christmas coin 2007.

 

The Isle of Mann. Where men are men and sheep are scared. When did the Sicilians invade this manly isle??? :foot-mouth:

 

wow i couldnt imagine having a christmas coin circulating all year round lol

 

I like this coin very much. Pretty nice design, isn't it?

 

hey world coin experts, i've posted this before but this threaded reminded me of this. any of you guys (or girls) know exactly what this is? i know these coins were produced about 10 years ago and aresome type of fantasy piece. but who made them? any idea? pretty big, about 43 mm and 26 g.

 

5 pence 1980. Very nice design, isn't it?

 

Different types of one penny.

 

Different types of 2 pence.

 

10 & 20 pence with the same portrait of the Queen.

 

It sure is. The entire series from those years is nicely designed in my opinion - with those Celtic (?) ornaments. The 1 penny from 2000 is from a neat series too, depicting early Christian buildings and symbols.

Christian

 

Here is my only IOM legal tender non circulating crap....

 

I thought it was quite an attractive and meaningful coin when I bought it

 

To commemorate 150th anniversary of the first paper postage stamp...The Penny Black.

 

Got it few weeks ago. I like the design.

 

5 pence 2017.

 

I can help you some.

The Isle of Man has the longest continuous parliament in the world. It also has the longest continuous horse drawn tram, as depicted in your 1986 50P. Interesting place.

As for mintages - the Pobjoy mint is notorious for having poor and incomplete records (A shame).
The mintages that you list are the maximum limit of coins that could be struck and not the true mintage figures of those that were actually struck. Given that - I am providing the mintage limit for the dates you do not have (see below).

1985 - 30,000 limit; with an additional 10,000 limit for those that were inserted into Christmas cards
1986 - 30,000 limit
1889 - 50,000 limit
1990 - 30,000 limit
1994 - 30,000 limit including 5,000 that circulated in the Isle of Man
2006 - 30,000 limit

Also - are you tracking the different die marks on these coins?

Hope this helps and enjoy your collection. I love Isle of Man coins and its history.