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6 Pence - George VI
| Issuer | Government of Fiji |
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| Year | 1938-1941 |
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| Currency | Pound (1873-1969) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Fiji's wartime sixpences occupy an uncomfortable corner of Pacific monetary history. When Japanese forces swept through the region after December 1941, the Royal New Zealand Mint and the Royal Mint in London faced serious disruption to colonial coinage supply chains. The 1938–1941 window for this type closes precisely at that rupture point.
KM#11 was struck in .500 fine silver, the same reduced standard adopted across most British colonial silver issues following the 1920 Coinage Act's influence on imperial dependencies. London set the precedent; Fiji followed.