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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Blue Whale
| Issuer | Pitcairn Islands |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Composition | Silver (.999) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II after the fourth definitive portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, depicting the Queen diademed and with a pearl earring visible. The engraver's initials 'IRB' appear below the truncation. The legend 'ELIZABETH II' arcs along the left field and 'PITCAIRN ISLANDS' along the upper right, while 'TWO DOLLARS' descends along the right field. The date '2016' is positioned in the lower exergue. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II PITCAIRN ISLANDS TWO DOLLARS IRB 2016 |
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Pitcairn Islands coinage is issued under New Zealand authority and has never circulated in any meaningful sense — the island's population has hovered below fifty for most of the past several decades, and virtually no transactional economy exists there. These pieces are produced entirely for the collector market, contracted through foreign mints with no connection to the island beyond the issuing authority's name.
The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a legitimate conservation subject for the South Pacific, where populations remain critically depleted following industrial whaling that continued in the region into the 1970s.