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1 Crown - Elizabeth II Sharks of the Atlantic Ocean, Tiger Shark

Issuer Tristan da Cunha
Year 2015
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Value 1 Crown
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Obverse script Latin
Obverse lettering HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II TDC 2015
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Tristan da Cunha, a British Overseas Territory so remote it has no airstrip and receives supply ships only a handful of times per year, issues coins primarily as collectibles — the island's roughly 250 permanent residents use Saint Helena pounds for daily commerce. This piece belongs to a themed series on Atlantic sharks, a category of numismatic product that proliferated sharply among small British territories in the 2010s, largely driven by wholesale mint contracts rather than any local monetary need.

Tiger sharks are not native to the cold waters around Tristan da Cunha itself, sitting well below their preferred tropical and subtropical range.

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