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* [[Southern Rhodesia 1938 1/2 penny|1938 half penny]] | * [[Southern Rhodesia 1938 1/2 penny|1938 half penny]] | ||
* [[Southern Rhodesia 1941 1/2 crown|1941 half crown]] | * [[Southern Rhodesia 1941 1/2 crown|1941 half crown]] | ||
+ | * [[Southern Rhodesia 1942 penny KM-8a|1942 penny, bronze]] | ||
* [[Southern Rhodesia 1942 shilling|1942 shilling]] | * [[Southern Rhodesia 1942 shilling|1942 shilling]] | ||
+ | * [[Southern Rhodesia 1942 1/2 crown|1942 half crown]] | ||
* [[Southern Rhodesia 1944 1/2 penny|1944 half penny]] | * [[Southern Rhodesia 1944 1/2 penny|1944 half penny]] | ||
* [[Coins and currency dated 1942]] | * [[Coins and currency dated 1942]] |
Latest revision as of 21:17, 24 March 2025
This specimen was lot 1535 in Stephen Album sale 32 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2018), where it sold for $940. The catalog description[1] noted, "SOUTHERN RHODESIA: George V, 1910-1936, ½ penny, 1942, Royal Mint VIP Proof or Proof of Record, likely the finest known, NGC graded PF65 RB. Exceptionally rare wartime issue, finer than the only two examples seen by PCGS (PR64) and NGC. The only other appearance at auction in recent times of a similar coin was Baldwin's Arielle Collection, September 2013, Lot 3425, which sold for $992, possibly now the above-mentioned PCGS coin." Rhodesia, named after diamond magnate Cecil Rhodes, was created a self-governing colony of Britain in 1923. Coinage commenced in 1932. The half penny was introduced in 1934 and struck intermittently until 1954. This type was struck 1942-44 and superseded copper-nickel types of 1934-39. The hole served two purposes: one, to prevent confusion with a higher denomination coin; two, to prevent natives from drilling their own holes when stringing them on necklaces.
Recorded mintage: 480,000 plus proofs.
Specification: bronze.
Catalog reference: KM-14a.
- 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 32, featuring the Don Erickson Collection of German Coins, Part II and the Hazerfans Collection of Ottoman Empire Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2018.
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