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50 Cents English Legend - SOUTH AFRICA
| Issuer | South African Mint |
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| Year | 1965-1969 |
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| Weight | 9.5 g |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing draped bust of Jan van Riebeeck, rendered in high relief with finely detailed shoulder-length hair and lace collar in the 17th-century Dutch style. The engraver's initials 'T.S.' appear at the lower left of the bust. The legend 'SOUTH AFRICA' arcs along the upper rim, with the date below it along the right field, both in upright Latin lettering against a flat field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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South Africa's switch to decimal coinage in 1961 — abandoning the pound-shilling-pence system it had used since Union — required parallel production of English and Afrikaans legend variants for most denominations throughout the 1960s. This duplication policy was a direct concession to the country's bilingual constitutional framework, and the two variants were struck simultaneously rather than in alternating years. The English legend 50-cent pieces of this run saw mintages fluctuate considerably across the five-year span, with 1965 and 1966 issues produced in the largest quantities before demand stabilized.