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1/2 Penny - George VI
| Issuer | South African Mint |
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| Year | 1951-1952 |
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| Value | 1/2 Penny (1⁄480) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed left-facing effigy of King George VI occupies the central field, rendered in high relief with finely detailed hair and a naturalistic portrait style characteristic of Thomas Humphrey Paget's Royal Mint work. The truncation of the neck is clean and unadorned. The circular Latin legend GEORGIVS SEXTVS REX runs around the periphery, reading from lower left to lower right, separated from the toothed border by a narrow flat rim. The engraver's initials HP appear discreetly below the truncation. |
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| Reverse description | The central device depicts a three-masted Dutch East India Company sailing galleon underway on stylized waves, rendered in fine detail by George Kruger Gray, evoking the early colonial maritime history of the Cape. The engraver's initials KG appear to the lower right of the ship. The bilingual circular legend reads SOUTH AFRICA flanking the date at the top and SUID-AFRIKA along the lower right, with the two country names separated by raised dots. At the base of the coin, the denomination 1/2 D is displayed flanked by decorative rosette stops, with the letter S to the left and D to the right of the fraction, all enclosed within a toothed border. |
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| Reverse lettering | SOUTH·AFRICA·1951·SUID·AFRIKA KG 1/2D (Translation: SOUTH·AFRICA·1951·SOUTH·AFRICA KG 1/2D) |
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