The Pobjoy Mint has produced wildlife coinage for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands since the territory gained its own numismatic program in the 1990s, partly as a revenue mechanism for one of the most remote and administratively thin British Overseas Territories on earth. The southern elephant seal — the world's largest pinniped — breeds almost exclusively on South Georgia's beaches, with the island hosting roughly half the global population.
KM#23 is one of several denomination-sharing wildlife types Pobjoy issued for the territory in this period, most seeing negligible circulation given the island's permanent population of zero.
The Pobjoy Mint has produced wildlife coinage for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands since the territory gained its own numismatic program in the 1990s, partly as a revenue mechanism for one of the most remote and administratively thin British Overseas Territories on earth. The southern elephant seal — the world's largest pinniped — breeds almost exclusively on South Georgia's beaches, with the island hosting roughly half the global population.
KM#23 is one of several denomination-sharing wildlife types Pobjoy issued for the territory in this period, most seeing negligible circulation given the island's permanent population of zero.