6 Pence - George VI

Fiji's wartime silver sixpences exist because the Pacific theater made normal supply chains impossible. With Japanese forces advancing through the region in 1942, maintaining a functioning colonial currency in Fiji became a logistical priority — the islands served as a major Allied staging point, and American forces flooded in following Pearl Harbor, putting pressure on local coinage supplies that peacetime mintage figures had never anticipated.

KM#11a distinguishes this issue from the standard KM#11 by its .900 fine silver content, a wartime adjustment tied to metal allocation decisions across British colonial mints.