1 Shilling - George VI 2nd type

New Zealand's switch from silver to copper-nickel in 1947 was driven by postwar silver shortages and British Treasury pressure to conserve strategic metal stocks across the Commonwealth. The changeover applied simultaneously to most of the colonial shilling series, making 1947 a transitional year in which both alloys briefly coexisted in circulation. KM#9a marks the compositional shift; the dies themselves were otherwise unchanged from the silver type.