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2 Shillings - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Southern Rhodesia (1932-1955) |
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| Year | 1954 |
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| Weight | 11.31 g |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing laureate effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, modelled by Mary Gillick, with hair swept up and tied with a ribbon, a laurel sprig visible above the brow. The truncated bust is unadorned, rendered in a naturalistic style characteristic of the Gillick portrait used on Commonwealth coinage of the early Elizabethan era. A continuous Latin legend encircles the effigy, interrupted by a small cross at the left, with the engraver's initials M.G. placed discreetly at the lower right of the bust. The entire design is bounded by a fine beaded border. |
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| Reverse lettering | SOUTHERN RHODESIA 1954 KG ·TWO SHILLINGS· |
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Southern Rhodesia's florin coinage shifted from silver to copper-nickel in 1947, following Britain's own wartime-driven abandonment of silver for circulating coinage. The 1954 issue falls within the territory's final years of self-governance — the federation with Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland had been established in 1953, and pressure on Southern Rhodesia's distinct monetary identity was already building. The federation would dissolve by 1963, and Rhodesian coinage as a distinct series ended shortly after.