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3 Pence Sammy Marks Tickey, Gold Pattern
| Issuer | South African Republic (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek) |
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| Year | 1898 |
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| Reference(s) | X#10, Hern#5 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | Z.A.R 18 3 98 (Translation: South African Republic) |
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Sammy Marks — Lithuanian-born entrepreneur, brandy distiller, and personal friend of Paul Kruger — proposed minting a threepenny piece at his Hatherley Distillery outside Pretoria, making it the only privately facilitated coinage pattern in ZAR history. The arrangement was commercially motivated: Marks wanted small-denomination coins to ease wage payments to his workers. The Pretoria Mint struck a handful of gold examples as presentation or proof-of-concept pieces.
The bronze circulation version was eventually approved in limited quantities, but the gold pattern never progressed beyond a tiny handful of known survivors. The Anglo-Boer War intervened within a year.