1/2 Penny - Elizabeth II Arms with supporters

By 1964, the Rhodesian half penny was already living on borrowed time. The unilateral declaration of independence in November 1965 severed Rhodesia's constitutional ties with Britain, making the continued appearance of the reigning British monarch on the coinage a political awkwardness the Smith government quietly tolerated while new designs were prepared. Coins struck across this three-year window therefore span two entirely different political realities within a single type.

KM#38 was superseded almost immediately after the last 1966 strikes.