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1 Florin - George VI
| Issuer | Fiji |
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| Year | 1938-1945 |
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| Engraver(s) | Obverse: Percy Metcalfe Reverse: George Kruger Gray |
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| Obverse description | Crowned effigy of King George VI facing left, wearing the Imperial State Crown, with a plain truncation to the neck. The engraver's initials 'PM' (Percy Metcalfe) appear below the truncation. The circumferential legend reads 'GEORGE VI KING EMPEROR', separated into two arcs flanking the portrait, all within a toothed border. |
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| Mintage | 1938 - - 20,000 1938 - Proof - 1941 - - 20,000 1941 - Proof - 1945 - - 100,000 1945 - Proof - |
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Fiji's wartime florins occupy an unusual position in Pacific colonial coinage: the .500 fine silver standard was already a deliberate cost-reduction from earlier British colonial practice, but the 1942–1945 issues were struck under genuine wartime metal pressure as the Pacific theater made normal supply chains unreliable. The Royal Mint maintained production throughout, though some years saw dramatically reduced mintages as military logistics took priority over colonial currency runs.
KM#13 spans a tight eight-year window bracketed by the outbreak of war on both ends.