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| Issuer | Government of Ascension Island |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Value | 2 Pounds |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 2011 |
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Ascension Island — a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic with a permanent population of around 800, most of them military or government contractors — has no indigenous inhabitants and no meaningful numismatic tradition of its own. Its commemorative coin programs exist almost entirely as revenue-generating exercises licensed through the Treasury, struck by private mints and sold to collectors who will never set foot on the island.
KM#19a is the silver variant of a base-metal issue, distinguishable by composition rather than any design distinction.