1 Shilling - George VI

Southern Rhodesia's wartime shillings present an understated supply problem: the colony's silver coinage was struck at the Royal Mint in London and Pretoria during a period when both facilities were under enormous pressure from wartime medal, token, and military production demands. The 1942 issues in particular were struck at Pretoria as London's capacity tightened. These circulated hard through the war years across a settler economy running well above peacetime activity levels, with labor and commodity demand surging to support the Allied war effort.