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2 Pounds - Elizabeth II Fin Whale
| Issuer | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands |
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| Year | 2021 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | TWO POUNDS |
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South Georgia's fin whale issues are part of a broader conservation-themed titanium series exploiting the territory's status as a British Overseas Territory with its own commemorative minting program — administratively convenient, commercially motivated. Titanium coinage of this specification is struck almost exclusively by Pobjoy Mint, which has held a near-monopoly on SGSSI issues for decades.
The fin whale was hunted to near-extinction in South Georgian waters during the early twentieth century, when the island's shore stations processed tens of thousands of whales annually before stocks collapsed entirely by the 1960s.