Issued to mark the centennial of formal nursing training in South Africa, which traces to the opening of the first nurses' training school at Baragwanath — though the profession's organized roots in the country are more precisely anchored to the late Victorian hospital reforms of the 1890s. The coin was struck in 1991, a year the South African Mint was producing a high volume of commemorative silver as international sanctions began to ease and export markets reopened.
Issued to mark the centennial of formal nursing training in South Africa, which traces to the opening of the first nurses' training school at Baragwanath — though the profession's organized roots in the country are more precisely anchored to the late Victorian hospital reforms of the 1890s. The coin was struck in 1991, a year the South African Mint was producing a high volume of commemorative silver as international sanctions began to ease and export markets reopened.