Founder of the Isle of Man - Manannán mac Lir.

So here we have the Manx euro, nominal – 10. The year of issue of this coin is 1998, mint: British Pobjoy Mint, Tedward, England. Total circulation – 30.000.

Manannán mac Lir, Irish sea god from whom the name of the Isle of Man allegedly derived. Manannán traditionally ruled an island paradise, protected sailors, and provided abundant crops. He gave immortality to the gods through his swine, which returned to life when killed.

Those who ate of the swine never died. He wore impenetrable armour and, carrying an invincible sword, rode over the waves in a splendid chariot. He and his Welsh equivalent, Manawydan, brother of the god Brân, apparently derived from an early Celtic deity.

In late sources, Manannán visits the land of the living, his movement is compared to the wind, a hawk or swallow, and sometimes takes the form of a thundering wheel rolling across the landscape, such as in the "Pursuit of the Gilla Decair", a 16th-century comic tale.

There is also the local lore the Manannán moved like a wheel turning on his three legs, a tradition widespread on the Isle of Man, but also found in some eastern Counties of Leinster according to John O'Donovan, though this folklore was unfamiliar to Whitley Stokes.