1/2 Penny - George VI

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.