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20 Cents Kgalagadi Transfrontier Peace Park
| Issuer | South African Mint |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Engraver(s) | Obverse: Arthur Sutherland Reverse: Aldrid Minnie |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a finely engraved naturalistic scene evoking the wildlife of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. To the left, a large male lion is depicted in close portrait, his magnificent mane rendered in rich detail. To the right, two meerkats (suricates) stand upright in their characteristic sentinel posture amid sparse scrub vegetation. The denomination '20C' appears in stylised numerals in the upper field, and the engraver's initials 'AM' are incused in the lower right field. |
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The Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park was established in 2000 as one of the world's first formal peace parks — a cross-border conservation agreement between South Africa and Botswana that effectively merged the former Gemsbok National Park with the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park. The 2007 commemorative issue marks that political achievement, which itself emerged from post-apartheid diplomatic normalization making such bilateral arrangements newly possible.
The Hern WL30 reference places this squarely in South African Mint's Wildlife series, a collector-oriented program running through the mid-2000s with relatively modest mintages and no circulation intent.