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20 Cents Charles Swart, Afrikaans Legend - SUID-AFRIKA
| Issuer | South African Mint |
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| Year | 1968 |
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| Currency | Rand (1961-date) |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing draped bust of Charles Robberts Swart, first State President of South Africa, portrayed wearing spectacles and a suit jacket, rendered in high relief with fine portraiture detail. The engraver's initials 'T.S.' appear in the lower right field. The Afrikaans legend 'SUID-AFRIKA' curves along the left periphery, with the date '1968' inscribed at the upper right. |
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| Mintage | 1968 - In Sets only - 50,000 1968 - Prooflike - 25,000 |
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Charles Robberts Swart was inaugurated as South Africa's first State President in 1961 when the country became a republic and severed its Commonwealth ties. By 1968, the final year of his presidency, the mint was producing coins bearing his portrait in both official languages — this Afrikaans-legend variant paired with a corresponding English issue. The bilingual parallel coinage policy, a deliberate expression of the dual-language constitutional framework, meant every denomination existed in two distinct types struck simultaneously.
Swart's portrait appeared on coins only during the transition years 1968–1968, making his series among the shortest presidential runs in the decimal coinage.