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2 Pounds - Elizabeth II Egmont Islands
| Issuer | British Indian Ocean Territory (British Overseas Territories) |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Currency | Pound sterling (2008-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field features a full-colour applied image of a seabird, identified as a tern, depicted in profile standing and facing left, rendered in naturalistic colours including white, black, and teal against the dark coin field. The legend EGMONT ISLANDS arcs along the upper rim, the issuer abbreviation BIOT appears in small lettering above the denomination £2, which is displayed in large characters at the bottom of the field. |
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The Egmont Islands — also called the Peros Banhos atoll — sit at the western edge of the Chagos Archipelago and were depopulated, along with the rest of BIOT, between 1968 and 1973 when Britain evicted the Chagossian population to make way for the US military base at Diego Garcia. The islands have had no permanent inhabitants since. Coins issued under the BIOT designation carry no circulating function whatsoever; the territory has no resident civilian population to use them.