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2 Pounds - Elizabeth II Grytviken
| Issuer | Pobjoy Mint |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | SOUTH GEORGIA & SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS 2004 IRB |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Grytviken, the old Norwegian whaling station on South Georgia, is better known as the burial site of Ernest Shackleton than as a functioning settlement. By 2004 the population consisted almost entirely of the British Antarctic Survey staff and a handful of museum workers. Pobjoy has held the minting contract for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands since the territory began issuing coins in the 1990s, producing a steady stream of wildlife and exploration-themed issues for the collector market.
KM#21 sees no circulation in any conventional sense — South Georgia has no resident civilian economy.