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2 Pounds - Elizabeth II Elephant Seal
| Issuer | Pobjoy Mint |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Weight | 10 g |
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| Obverse description | Effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing a diamond tiara, drop earring, and pearl necklace, rendered in the fourth definitive portrait style as used by the Pobjoy Mint. The legend SOUTH GEORGIA & SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS arcs along the upper periphery, with the date 2017 positioned to the lower right. The Pobjoy Mint privy mark PM appears incuse in the lower left field near the truncation of the bust. |
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| Mintage | 2017 PM - - 7,500 |
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The Pobjoy Mint has produced titanium coinage for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands since the late 1990s, exploiting the metal's optical properties — titanium oxidizes at different depths depending on heat application, producing interference colors impossible to replicate in gold or silver. The elephant seal issues in this material are struck for a territory administered from the Falkland Islands, a jurisdiction with no permanent civilian population and a coin-issuing program sustained entirely by collector demand.
KM#88 sits in a series that has drawn consistent attention from titanium specialists rather than general world coin collectors.