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6 Pence - George V SUID-AFRIKA 6D
| Issuer | South Africa Mint |
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| Year | 1931-1936 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing crowned effigy of King George V, depicted in military uniform with decorations visible at the truncation, engraved by Edgar Bertram MacKennal. The King wears the Imperial State Crown rendered in fine detail above his bearded portrait. A continuous Latin legend encircles the effigy close to the toothed border, reading GEORGIVS V REX IMPERATOR. The field is plain and unadorned, with a beaded inner border framing the entire composition. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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South Africa's sixpence series of this period sits at the intersection of two monetary pressures: the global depression that devastated the rand-sterling relationship, and a domestic debate over whether South African coinage should shed its British character entirely. The bilingual SUID-AFRIKA inscription — a hard-won compromise between English and Afrikaner political factions — had only appeared on South African coinage from 1923, and its presence here reflects ongoing tension over national identity that would not resolve until the republic of 1961.
KM#16.2 is distinguished from the earlier .925 fine sixpences by the reduced silver content, a direct consequence of the 1930 Currency and Banking Act.