2 Pounds - Elizabeth II Tucana constellation, the Toucan

The British Antarctic Territory, though a genuine UK Overseas Territory with a functioning legal and postal system, has no permanent civilian population — its "residents" are rotating scientific staff at Rothes and Halley research stations. Coins issued for BAT circulate nowhere in practice, a fact the Royal Mint and its licensing partners understand perfectly well. This piece belongs to a Tucana constellation series, named for the southern constellation visible from the Antarctic sky, itself named after the South American bird by Dutch navigators Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman in the 1590s.