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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John the Jute, post: 672029, member: 17740&quot;]My understanding is that Baird &amp; Co. is the sole distributor for the UK</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.goldline.co.uk/bullionCoinsPage.page?coinId=39" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.goldline.co.uk/bullionCoinsPage.page?coinId=39" rel="nofollow">http://www.goldline.co.uk/bullionCoinsPage.page?coinId=39</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>so you won&#039;t find the coin on Lawrence Chard&#039;s website, useful though that is.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The only date I&#039;ve seen is 2009.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It did look wrong somehow, since the platinum noble, identical in design, more or less defined the platinum bullion coin. (These were minted in large mumbers in the 1980s, from 1983 on, and were still occasionally minted as late as 1997. Lots of them, I understand, were melted down last year, when a bottleneck in South Africa sent the platinum price through the roof.)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Isle of Man coinage, including the morass of cute collectors&#039; coins, is minted by the Pobjoy Mint in England.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For any coin minted after 1970, that&#039;s certainly true, and is supported by Lawrence Chard&#039;s jaundiced comments on the flood of Pobjoy issues:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.taxfreegold.co.uk/isleofmanhistory.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.taxfreegold.co.uk/isleofmanhistory.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.taxfreegold.co.uk/isleofmanhistory.html</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There were a few coins minted locally before the island brought its currency into line with the UK in 1840--Hiberno-Norse silver pennies from the 11th century, Murray&#039;s Pence tokens from the 17th, and pennies &amp; halfpennies from the Lords of Man in the 18th--that are much rarer.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For the modern issues to acquire a numismatic premium would, I think, take an extinction event--as has already happened to the platinum nobles--followed by a hundred years of neglect.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Later,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>John[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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