The Manx

Isle of Man

The Isle of Man , otherwise known simply as Mann , is a self-governing British Crown Dependency, located in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, within the British Isles. The head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, who holds the title of Lord of Mann. The Lord of Mann is...

 Noble is a platinum

Platinum

Platinum is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Pt and an atomic number of 78. Its name is derived from the Spanish term platina del Pinto, which is literally translated into "little silver of the Pinto River." It is a dense, malleable, ductile, precious, gray-white transition metal...

 bullion coin

Bullion coin

A bullion coin is a coin struck from precious metal and kept as a store of value or an investment, rather than used in day-to-day commerce. Investment coins are generally coins that have been minted after 1800, have a purity of not less than 900 thousandths and are or have been a legal tender in...

 minted by the Pobjoy Mint

Pobjoy Mint

The Pobjoy Mint is Europe’s leading private mint which produces legal tender commemorative and circulating coins, medals and tokens for governments, central banks and major companies throughout the world from its premises in Surrey, England.-History:...

 from 1983 to 1989. Nobles are legal tender

Legal tender

Legal tender is a medium of payment allowed by law or recognized by a legal system to be valid for meeting a financial obligation. Paper currency is a common form of legal tender in many countries....

, but do not have a value associated with any currency (like the gold Krugerrand

Krugerrand

The Krugerrand is a South African gold coin, first minted in 1967 to help market South African gold. The coin, produced by the South African Mint, proved popular and by 1980 the Krugerrand accounted for 90% of the gold coin market. The name itself is a compound of Kruger and rand, the South...

). Instead the value of a Noble is equal to its platinum content.

The obverse

Obverse and reverse

Obverse and its opposite, reverse, refer to the two flat faces of coins and some other two-sided objects, including paper money, flags , seals, medals, drawings, old master prints and other works of art, and printed fabrics. In this usage, obverse means the front face of the object and reverse...

 shows Queen Elizabeth II with the text Isle of Man and Elizabeth II in capitals. The reverse shows a viking ship

Viking ship

Viking ships were vessels used during the Viking Age in Northern Europe. Scandinavian tradition of shipbuilding during the Viking Age was characterized by slender and flexible boats, with symmetrical ends with true keel. They were clinker built, which is the overlapping of planks riveted together...

 with the denomination and the platinum content with the words Platinum fine.

Specifications

Denomination	Diameter* (mm)	Weight (g Gram The gram is a metric system unit of mass.... )	Fineness	Platinum content
				(g)	(oz t Troy ounce The troy ounce is a unit of imperial measure. In the present day it is most commonly used to gauge the weight of precious metals. One troy ounce is nowadays defined as exactly 0.0311034768 kg = 31.1034768 g. There are approximately 32.1507466 troy oz in 1 kg... )
1 oz	32.7	31.119	99.95%	31.103	1.000
1/2 oz	27.0	15.600	99.95%	15.552	0.500
1/4 oz	22.0	7.780	99.95%	7.776	0.250
1/10 oz	16.5	3.112	99.95%	3.110	0.100
1/20 oz	13.9	1.556	99.95%	1.555	0.050
* Maximum dimensions