2 Pounds - Elizabeth II Eagle Islands

The British Indian Ocean Territory has no permanent civilian population — the indigenous Chagossians were forcibly removed between 1968 and 1973 to make way for the US military base at Diego Garcia. Coins issued under the BIOT name are produced entirely for collector sale, with no circulating economy to absorb them. The Eagle Islands are among the more remote atolls in the Chagos Archipelago, periodically used for scientific surveys but otherwise uninhabited.