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5 Rand iNingizimu Afrika - iSewula Afrika
| Issuer | South African Reserve Bank |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Diameter | 26.0 mm |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Security edge with lettering |
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South Africa's post-apartheid coinage introduced eleven official languages in rotating pairs across currency denominations, a policy requiring constant die changes and making any single language combination relatively short-lived in production. This piece carries Zulu and Ndebele — two of the Nguni languages — in what was part of a deliberate constitutional acknowledgment of linguistic plurality that no neighboring state had attempted at scale on circulating coinage.
The bimetallic format was adopted in 2004 largely as an anti-counterfeiting measure after the all-nickel predecessor proved vulnerable to forgery.