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| Issuer | South African Reserve Bank |
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| Year | 1966-1976 |
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| Currency | Rand (1961-date) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Jan van Riebeeck at left, with a vignette of an ox wagon at lower right. The denomination numeral appears at centre with the English legend above and Afrikaans legend below, set within a fine guilloche underprint. The note is framed by an ornate intaglio border. |
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| Reverse description | A large central vignette renders a gold mining complex in intaglio, with a prominent headgear tower at right, industrial buildings and mine dumps in the centre, and a steam locomotive with ore wagons in the foreground. Denomination numerals '5' are enclosed in guilloche rosettes at upper left and upper right corners, with a fine lace-pattern border framing the entire composition. |
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| Protection description | 1966 to 1967: head of a springbok; 1975 to 1976: portrait of Jan van Riebeeck |
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