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1/2 Penny - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Rhodesia and Nyasaland |
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| Year | 1955-1964 |
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| Thickness | 1.25 mm |
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| Obverse description | Two giraffes stand facing each other in heraldic posture, their necks forming an arch over the central round hole. A St. Edward's Crown is positioned above the hole between the two animals, resting atop the arch formed by their necks. The giraffes stand on a ground line, rendered in fine relief against a smooth field. The circular legend QUEEN ELIZABETH THE SECOND runs around the periphery, flanked by a beaded border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was a short-lived political experiment, assembled by Britain in 1953 over the objections of Black African political leaders who correctly anticipated that white-minority governance would dominate the arrangement. Its coinage followed almost immediately, with this series entering production in 1955. The federation collapsed in 1963, and this denomination ceased with it — a ten-year window that makes the series historically compact but not particularly scarce in circulated grades.
Nyasaland became Malawi in 1964, Northern Rhodesia became Zambia the same year, and Southern Rhodesia's path to Zimbabwe took considerably longer and considerably more violence.