1/4 Penny - George VI

South Africa's farthing survived into the late 1940s largely because of the penny's purchasing power — a full penny still bought something meaningful, and quarter-penny increments mattered to low-wage urban workers in a racially stratified economy where small denomination accuracy in daily transactions was not trivial. The series spans the entire wartime period, during which the Pretoria mint continued striking bronze despite copper being a strategic metal under Allied supply management.

The 1945 and 1946 dates are notably scarcer within the run.