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10 Cents Elephant - Strength of Africa
| Issuer | South African Mint |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Weight | 16.813 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 10c MJS (Translation: Ten Cents) |
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Part of the South African Mint's "Strength of Africa" Wildlife series, this issue belongs to a collector-focused program launched in the early 2000s that drew heavily on international demand for Southern African wildlife themes — a market the Mint had already proven with the success of its Natura gold series in the 1990s. The elephant denomination pairing was deliberate: the ten cents carried the least transactional weight, making it an obvious candidate for a prestige silver reformatting.
Hern's WL11 attribution places it squarely in the Wildlife series numbering block, distinct from the standard circulation and proof sets catalogued separately.