Fiji 1942-S penny

Steve Album sale 38, lot 3867

This specimen was lot 3867 in Stephen Album sale 38 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2020), where it sold for $83.30. The catalog description^[1] noted, "FIJI: Republic, penny, 1942-S, two-year type, NGC graded MS65." This type was struck at San Francisco 1942-43 as a wartime substitute for the usual copper-nickel type struck 1937-45. It is common as many were saved by servicemen stationed there during the war. Fiji converted to decimal coinage in 1969.

Recorded mintage: 1,000,000.

Specification: 6.5 g, brass, 26 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-7a.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 38, featuring the Dabestani Collection of Persian Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.

Link to:

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