O nouă monedă comemorativă britanică de titan din Teritoriul Britanic din Oceanul Indian - 07.03.2019

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A new colorful coin from the Pobjoy Mint showcases the red-footed booby in, appropriately, a red titanium finish.
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The obverse of the £2 coin for the British Indian Ocean Territory features the Pobjoy Mint effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, while the reverse features an adult red-footed booby with its chick.
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A new 2019 colorful titanium coin from the Pobjoy Mint shows the red-footed booby on a £2 coin for the British Indian Ocean Territory.

The red-footed booby is a large seabird that, as its name suggests, has red feet. Found extensively in tropical areas, the bird is the smallest member of the booby family at about 70 centimeters in height, but they are very powerful and agile fliers and swimmers, although their take-off and landing skills leave a lot to be desired.

The red-footed booby breeds on islands in most tropical oceans, nesting in shoreline trees and shrubs, but when not breeding it spends most of its time at sea, often following marine craft, and is rarely seen on land outside of the breeding colonies.

The reverse of the coin features an adult red-footed booby with its chick.

The obverse features the Pobjoy Mint effigy of Queen Elizabeth II.

As titanium reacts differently with every strike, each titanium coin is technically different from the next and varies slightly in color. A lined effect present on the coins is also unique to this metal.

In addition to the titanium version, a plain Uncirculated copper-nickel edition is also available.

The titanium coin weighs 10 grams and measures 36.1 millimeters in diameter. It has a mintage limit of 7,500 pieces and retails for $49.

The copper-nickel coin weighs 28.28 grams and measures 38.6 millimeters in diameter. It has a mintage limit of 10,000 pieces and retails for $15.95.

Both coins are available from the Pobjoy Mint website, www.pobjoy.com. 

 

 

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Noi monede comemorative britanice din Sfânta Elena; Ascension și Tristan da Cunha, Georgia de Sud și Insulele Sandwich de Sud - 05.02.2019

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Unusual in both appearance and biology, the queen triggerfish appears on titanium and copper-nickel 1-crown coins for Ascension Island, from Pobjoy Mint.
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Purple titanium makes the already distinctive Ascension Island coin featuring the Queen Triggerfish even more eye-catching!

The macaroni penguin appears on the coins of the South Georgia and Sandwich Islands in pale blue titanium.
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Two distinctive animals native to the South Atlantic, the queen triggerfish and the macaroni penguin, are featured on coins of Ascension Island and of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands being minted in 2019 by the Pobjoy Mint.

The coins will be released in both titanium and copper-nickel, in both Proof and Uncirculated finishes. The titanium coins will be issued in two different colors, pale blue for the £2 Macaroni Penguin coins and purple for the 1-crown Queen Triggerfish coins.

Ascension Island fall under the administration of Saint Helena, so the 2019 coins featuring the queen triggerfish are denominated as St. Helena crowns.

Pobjoy Mint is striking all the coins, as it does under contract for many UK protectorates. Both titanium coins have limited mintages: 10,000 of the pale blue Macaroni Penguin coins, and 7,500 of the purple Queen Triggerfish coins.

Depicted on the pale blue titanium coin for the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, the macaroni penguin is native to the South Atlantic, found on island chains north of Antarctica and on the tip of the Antarctic peninsula.

The bird’s distinctive yellow tuft above its eyes reminded some 18th century observers of a faddish, or “macaroni,” hairstyle. The penguins, the most populous birds on Antarctica, have experienced serious population declines despite the large colonies they live in. Between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s, 50 percent of the population disappeared, after a die off of krill attributed to climate change. Conservation efforts are ongoing.

With a peculiarly-shaped face and regal colors of purple, blue, gold and green, the queen triggerfish on the coins for Ascension Island dwells in the reefs around Cape Verde, the Azores and, naturally, Ascension Island. Spines on their anterior and dorsal fins help them secure themselves in crevices to sleep at night and a specialized membrane allows them to make a throbbing sound to scare away other fish. They also have very sharp teeth.

While they haven’t experienced quite the precipitous decline as the macaroni penguin, the damage climate change is doing to their reef habitats presents an existential challenge to the queen triggerfish.

Both coins feature on their obverses an effigy of Queen Elizabeth II that is special to Pobjoy Mint’s strikings for British Commonwealth territories.

The coins can be ordered from the Pobjoy Mint beginning April 1. Titanium coins of either design cost $47.50 each, and the copper-nickel Uncirculated coins cost $14.95 each.

 

 

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