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5 Cents English Legend - SOUTH AFRICA
| Issuer | South African Mint |
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| Year | 1965-1969 |
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| Currency | Rand (1961-date) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1965 - Hern#D85 - 32,689,999 1965 - Hern#D85; Proof - 25,000 1966 - Hern#D87 - 4,101,000 1967 - Hern#D89 - 4,590,000 1969 - Hern#D93 - 5,020,000 |
| Additional information |
South Africa's shift to English-legend coinage in 1965 was a direct consequence of the country's republican referendum four years earlier and the subsequent need to issue parallel Afrikaans and English coin series — a bilingual duplication that effectively doubled certain mintage runs and created a collecting niche around matching date pairs. The nickel alloy adopted for this series replaced the earlier silver-bearing composition phased out in the early 1960s as bullion economics made silver coinage impractical for everyday circulation.