10 Cents - George VI

The 1947 Mauritius coinage marks the final year of wartime-influenced production scheduling for the colony; copper-nickel had been suspended across many British dependencies during the war in favor of cheaper alloys, and its restoration here signals the broader post-war normalization of Crown Colony issues. George VI's health was deteriorating sharply by this point — he died in February 1952 — making the late 1940s issues a compressed final chapter for his colonial coinage across the empire.