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1 Pound - Elizabeth II Cornwallis Island
| Issuer | British Antarctic Territory (British Overseas Territories) |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Value | 1 Pound 1 GBP = USD 1.36 |
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| Reverse lettering | CORNWALLIS ISLAND 1 |
| Edge | Reeded |
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The British Antarctic Territory operates as a functioning administrative entity despite having no permanent civilian population, which creates the unusual situation of coins being issued under genuine legal authority for a jurisdiction where essentially no one lives. The 2021 pound series documenting Antarctic islands serves cartographic and scientific record purposes as much as philatelic ones. Cornwallis Island lies within the territory's defined boundaries in the Weddell Sea region.
Copper-nickel at this size and weight places the piece firmly in the struck-for-collectors category — no circulation infrastructure exists to deploy it.