1/4 Penny - George V 1/4 D

South Africa's farthing series of the 1930s occupies an awkward historical position: the country was navigating the aftermath of abandoning the gold standard in 1932, a move the Nationalist-Labour Pact government resisted until a sterling crisis forced its hand. Low-denomination bronze coinage saw relatively light circulation during the Depression years, as many rural and urban poor conducted transactions in kind or through truck-system arrangements on the mines. Surviving examples in mint state are consequently more common than mid-grade circulated pieces, which saw the heaviest use in the years immediately following the monetary shift.