The Treasury has revealed details of new crown coins marking special occasions over the next two years.
Two orders will be put before Tynwald later this month to mint the coins, which commemorate the next World Cup and the discovery of a lost city.
The World Cup coins will mark the tournament in Brazil which is due to take place in 2014.
But before that it's the bicentenary of the European discovery of Petra in Jordan.
Petra was rediscovered by Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in 1812. It was the capital of the ancient Nabataean civilization and when Burckhardt published a book about the find ten years later, thousands of Europeans travelled to see it.
Modern Europeans, however, will probably know it best as the place Indiana Jones found the Holy Grail.
The coins which Treasury will produce to mark the anniversary will be of various denominations and made of platinum, gold, silver and palladium.
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