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1 Shilling - George VI Shilling
| Issuer | South Africa Mint |
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| Year | 1948-1950 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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South Africa's postwar shillings occupy an awkward transitional moment: the country was still operating under the Crown while Afrikaner nationalist politics were rapidly reshaping the state. The National Party's 1948 electoral victory — the same year this series begins — set in motion the formal apparatus of apartheid and within a decade would produce a republic that severed ties with the Commonwealth entirely. These shillings were among the last struck before that rupture began in earnest.
The .800 fine standard had been South Africa's silver benchmark since 1923, a deliberate step down from sterling .925 that reflected postwar metal economics rather than any loss of confidence in the currency.