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1 Ounce Natura - Buffalo
| Issuer | South African Mint |
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| Year | 1997 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Fine reeding |
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The Natura series launched in 1994 as South Africa's answer to the thematic wildlife gold bullion market, explicitly positioned against Canada's Maple Leaf and the Austrian Philharmonic rather than the Krugerrand's dominant but design-static formula. The Buffalo was among the earliest subjects chosen — the Cape buffalo being one of the so-called Big Five, the marketing framework inherited from colonial hunting culture that the post-apartheid mint repurposed with some irony for international coin sales.
The dual Hern references suggest this year saw more than one reverse variety in the Buffalo issue, a known characteristic of the Natura series that has made systematic collection of die variants a minor specialty among South African gold enthusiasts.