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2 Pounds - Elizabeth II Crabeater seal
| Issuer | British Antarctic Territory |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#20 |
| Obverse description | Crowned and draped effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing a pearl necklace and drop earring, after the portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley. The legend BRITISH ANTARCTIC TERRITORY arcs around the upper field, with the date 2017 positioned to the lower right, and the Pobjoy Mint mark PM visible at the lower left of the bust truncation. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The British Antarctic Territory, though a functioning UK Overseas Territory with a resident scientific population, has no indigenous civilian economy — its coins are produced explicitly for the philatelic and numismatic trade and do not circulate in any meaningful sense. The crabeater seal is a reasonable subject for the series; despite its name, it feeds almost exclusively on Antarctic krill, a dietary quirk that makes it the most abundant large mammal on Earth after humans.