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1/4 Rupee - George VI
| Issuer | Mauritius |
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| Year | 1938 |
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| Composition | Silver (.916) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded. |
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The 1938 Mauritius quarter rupee was struck at the Royal Mint in London — the island had no mint of its own — during a period when the Colonial Office was quietly debating whether to shift the currency peg from sterling toward a rupee-based system aligned more closely with India. George VI had acceded only the previous year following his brother's abdication, making 1937–38 a transitional moment for royal coinage across British colonial issues simultaneously.
The .916 fine silver content places this among the higher-purity colonial fractional rupees still being struck before wartime silver shortages forced composition changes across the empire within a few years.