3 Pence - George VI

The switch to copper-nickel for this issue came directly out of postwar silver shortages — Britain and its dependencies had been liquidating silver coinage stocks since the mid-1940s to service war debt, and Southern Rhodesia followed the 1947 UK coinage reform in dropping silver from its smaller denominations. The timing means this is the first year of the copper-nickel type for this denomination, sharing that transition moment with the British threepence itself.