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1 Pound - Elizabeth II Rowett Island
| Issuer | British Antarctic Territory (British Overseas Territories) |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the King George IV State Diadem, with a pearl drop earring visible. The truncation bears the engraver's initials J.C. The peripheral legend reads ELIZABETH II to the left and D . G . REGINA to the right, with the date 2021 appearing in the lower field. The portrait is rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished proof field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Rowett Island sits in the South Sandwich Islands, a remote volcanic chain so rarely visited that the British Antarctic Territory itself has no permanent civilian population. The island was named after John Quiller Rowett, the sugar merchant who funded Ernest Shackleton's final expedition — the Quest voyage of 1921–22 — during which Shackleton died at South Georgia before the ship ever reached Antarctic waters.