50 Pence - Elizabeth II HMS Resolution

HMS Resolution was one of two ships — the other being HMS Discovery — on Cook's third Pacific voyage, launched in 1776. Cook never completed it; he was killed at Kealakekua Bay in February 1779. The ship's connection to South Georgia is direct: it was Resolution's voyage of 1772–75, Cook's second, that first circumnavigated the island and formally claimed it for Britain in January 1775, making this coin's subject choice historically coherent rather than arbitrary.

The Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands has no permanent civilian population, and its coin program exists entirely for collectors.