Catalog
| Issuer | Fiji |
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| Year | 1942-1943 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#14a |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1942 S - - 250,000 1943 S - - 250,000 |
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Fiji's wartime coinage shift from bronze to brass was a direct consequence of copper supply pressures across Allied Pacific territories in 1942. The reformulation was practical rather than symbolic — copper was a strategic war material, and the colonial administration in Suva had little leverage over allocation priorities set in London and Washington.
KM#14a is the brass variant of a type that had been struck in bronze since 1934. The two-year window of this alloy makes it the scarcer subtype, though it sees less collector attention than it deserves.