Many people make the assumption that a coin has to be a circle, otherwise, is it really a coin? Of course, us Australian's don't believe in this notion and have the 50 cent coin to back us up. Clearly, the Isle of Man follows the same philosophy with the triangular coin. I'll be honest, I wasn't quite sure where the Isle of Man was and assumed it was around Egypt, but no, it is in between Ireland and England. However, like all good coins, there is a further backstory to the coin.
For those of you who aren't so well versed in this topic, the coin depicts the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, a man marked by his, let's just say, peculiar breeding and its consequences. His tomb was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922, which was his mark on the world. In 2009, the Pobjoy Mint (the Mint where coins for British Overseas Territories are created) launched this coin to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Carter's death.
On another interesting note, the sand in the sun disc seen at the top of the coin is taken from inside Tutankhamun's tomb. Not only does it depict history, but it also holds a part of it too.
The coin itself is only one ounce, and I sadly couldn't get an accurate number of how many of them were actually produced. What I do know is that these coins are going for a few hundred dollars on Ebay, so while they aren't going to make a holder of them immensely wealthy, they also aren't to shabby.
Let me know if you have this coin or any others from the Pobjoy Mint in the comments below!