1959

UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA

5 SHILLING (CROWN)

GRADE: PF 67

A CHOICE COIN - SECOND FINEST SHARING

Queen Elizabeth II coinage (1953–60)

The obverse features the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II designed by Mary Gillick, while the reverse was designed by Coert Steynberg.

From 1923 coins of the Union of South Africa were struck at the Royal Mint, Pretoria . In 1941 the Government of South Africa took over the mint. It was renamed the South African Mint, although it continued to produce coins based on the British coinage for some years thereafter. Coins of the South African Pound were part of the physical form of South Africa 's historical currency, the South African pound. Prior to the  Union of 1910, various authorities issued their own pounds, some as independent entities. After the Union but before 1923, coins in circulation were mostly British, but the coins of Paul Kruger's South African Republic remained in circulation. In 1923, South Africa began to issue its own coins adopting coins that were identical in size and value to those used in Great Britain : 12 pence (12d) = 1 shilling (1s), and 20s = 1 pound (£1).On 14 February 1961 South Africa adopted a decimal currency replacing the pound with the  Rand . 

THIS 1959 FIVE SHILLING IS NOT OFTEN FOUND IN THE MARKETPLACE AVAILBALE AS A GRADED NGC COIN

THIS COIN WAS A MINTAGE OF THE THE LAST UNION ISSUES LEADING UP TO SOUTH AFRICA BECOMING A REPUBLIC IN 1961 

A CHOICE COLLECTORS COIN NOW OFFERED AT A VERY LOW PRICE - NOT OFTEN FOUND ON THE MARKET

THIS GRADED AND SLABBED COIN IS NOW AVAILABLE AS ONE OF THE RARE AND MORE DIFFICULT TO FIND UNION COINS USED DURING SOUTH AFRICAS UNION PERIOD

A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO OBTAIN THIS SLABBED AND HIGHLY GRADED COIN

OUR USUAL SELLING PRICE IS AROUND R 25 000+ 

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R 22 500

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1959

UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA

5 SHILLING (CROWN)

GRADE: PL 67

A CHOICE COIN - PROOF FINEST SHARING 

  Queen Elizabeth II coinage (1953–60)

The obverse features the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II designed by Mary Gillick, while the reverse was designed by Coert Steynberg.

THIS COIN WAS A MINTAGE OF THE THE LAST UNION ISSUES LEADING UP TO SOUTH AFRICA BECOMING A REPUBLIC IN 1961 

A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO OBTAIN THIS SLABBED AND HIGHLY GRADED COIN

OUR USUAL SELLING PRICE IS AROUND R 25 000+ 

OWN THIS TRULY MAGNIFICENT HISTORICAL COIN

  NOW SELLING FOR ONLY

R 22 500

ON OUR COLLECTORS PROMOTION  

 AN ADVANTAGEOUS PRICE - CALL TO CONFIRM

CALL TO CONFIRM

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GET BOTH THESE RARITIES FOR A MAGNIFICENT OFFER AT

R 40 000 

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 During the years immediately following the Anglo-Boer wars, Britain set about unifying the four colonies including the former Boer republics into one self-governed country named the Union of South Africa. This was accomplished after several years of negotiations, when the South Africa Act 1909 consolidated the Cape Colony, Natal, Transvaal, and Orange Free State into one nation. Under the provisions of the act, the Union became an independent Dominion of the British Crown, governed under a form of constitutional monarchy, with the British monarch represented by a governor-general. Prosecutions before the courts of the Union of South Africa were instituted in the name of the Crown and government officials served in the name of the Crown. The British High Commission territories of Basutoland (now  Lesotho ), and  Bechuanaland  (now  Botswana ), Swaziland  continued under direct rule from Britain.

General Louis Botha headed the first government of the new Union, with General Jan Smuts as his deputy. Their South African National Party, later known as the South African Party or SAP, followed a generally pro-British, white-unity line. The more radical Boers split away under the leadership of General Barry Hertzog, forming the National Party (NP) in 1914. The NP championed Afrikaner interests, advocating separate development for the two white groups and independence from Britain.

Dissatisfaction with British influence in the Union’s affairs reached a climax in September 1914, when impoverished Boers, anti-British Boers and bitter-enders (meaning “bitter enders”) launched a rebellion. The rebellion was quashed and at least one officer was sentenced to death and executed by firing squad. In 1924 the Afrikaner-dominated National Party came to power in a coalition government with the Labour Party. Afrikaans, previously regarded as a low-level Dutch patois, replaced Dutch as an official language of the Union . English and Dutch became the official languages in 1925. The Union of South Africa came to an end after a referendum on 5 October 1960, in which a majority of white South Africans voted in favour of unilateral withdrawal from the British Commonwealth and the establishment of a Republic of South Africa.Source Wikipedia