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2 Rand Aforika Borwa - South Africa
| Issuer | South African Mint |
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| Year | 2008-2020 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | The post-2000 South African national coat of arms occupies the central field, featuring a secretary bird with outstretched wings above a shield charged with two figures in embrace, flanked by symmetrical wheat sheaf supporters and an elephant tusk on each side. A rising sun with radiating rays crowns the composition above the bird. The motto scroll at the base bears the legend IKE E: IXARRA IKE in the ǀXam language of the Khoisan people, meaning 'Unity in Diversity'. The country name appears in two languages along the left and right periphery — AFORIKA BORWA in Setswana to the left and SOUTH AFRICA in English to the right — with the date of issue at the top of the field and the engraver's initials ALS at the base. |
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| Edge | Segmented reeding |
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South Africa's post-apartheid coinage underwent a deliberate bilingual restructuring, with Afrikaans and English alternating across denominations rather than appearing together — a policy designed to navigate eleven official languages without privileging any single one. The 2 Rand denomination drew the Afrikaans obverse inscription for this series, pairing it with an English reverse, a rotation that had been in place since the mid-1990s currency redesign following the transition to democratic government.
Nickel-plated copper replaced the earlier nickel-brass composition during this period largely on cost grounds, as global nickel prices spiked sharply around 2007-2008.