25 Aurar - Christian X

Iceland's zinc coinage of 1942 was a direct consequence of wartime metal shortages — copper and nickel had been redirected to Allied war production following the British occupation of Iceland in May 1940. Zinc was the fallback. These pieces corrode aggressively in circulation, and surviving examples free of pitting or surface degradation are genuinely difficult to locate.

Iceland was still formally under Danish sovereignty at the time of striking, though the Althing had assumed full executive authority in 1941 pending a formal independence referendum.