1 Florin - George VI

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.