2 Shillings - George VI 2 Shillings, SEXTVS REX

South Africa's florin series ran on borrowed time by 1948. The Union had been pressing for a fully decimalized currency since the early 1940s, and the decision to retain shilling-based coinage into the late Pretoria issues was as much political inertia as economic logic. George VI's titulature on these coins dropped "IND:IMP" — Emperor of India — after 1948 following Indian independence, a change that rippled through every Commonwealth mint simultaneously.

The SEXTVS designation distinguishes these as the sixth effigy type in the South African florin sequence. Mintage fell sharply across all three years as decimalization planning accelerated, with 1950 issues among the lowest-struck of the type.