1/2 Penny - Elizabeth II

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.