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1892

ZAR PAUL KRUGER

  SILVER PROOF COIN SET

!!! A HIGHLY GRADED NGC PROOF SET !!!

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This silver set is mostly graded PF 64 with two PF 65 and one PF 62

This set is therefore regarded in the upper end of graded sets available.

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The coins in this set have all been graded by NGC Numismatic Guarantee Corporation based in the U S A and is internationally recognised by collectors, investors and dealers worldwide. 

THE FIVE SHILLING WAS STRUCK WITH THE 

DOUBLE SHAFT DIES  

 Slabbed obverse views of the coin set shown below. In recent times slabbed population statistics have contributed to a large degree, in assisting to determine quantities produced, as well as the quality and varieties of slabbed grades of the proof coins available to collectors.

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PROOF 24ct GOLD BOER WAR SET 

WITH 6 x 1/2 oz PROOF 24ct COMMEMORATIVE MEDALLIONS 

This generic image is the copyright of Randburg Coin

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WHEN YOU PURCHASE THE Z A R COINS YOU GET THE ANGLO BOER WAR SET INCLUDED FOR THE PROMOTION PRICE - A COMMEMORATIVE HISTORICAL GOLD SET 

 DESCRIPTION FOR THE SILVER PROOF COIN SET

Gold was discovered in the Johannesburg area in 1886. President Paul Kruger took the opportunity to start the first mint in South Africa, realizing that the ZAR needed its own currency. In order to increase Paul Krugers popularity in the upcoming elections of the time, he wanted to issue new coins. Paul Kruger could not wait for the Pretoria Mint to be completed.  So in haste he contracted the 1892 ZAR coins to be struck at the German Mint in Berlin. The specimen coins were struck with polished dies, from polished blanks. The pond, half pond and the five shilling were struck with the double shaft dies. The implication was that the dies were designed with the European design of a wagon, which had a double shaft, as opposed to the typical Voortrekker wagon which had a single shaft for spanning oxen on either side, and the rear wheels were larger than the front .  The erroneous representation almost cost Paul Kruger the elections and he withdrew the issue,  replacing them with the single shaft coins.

There are no known records of how many proof coins were produced, quantities usually listed are based on availability, general trade and various authors estimates over a number of years. 

''OOM PAUL''Press. THE Z A R STATE MINT AND BANK - OFFICIALY OPENED ON THE 6TH JULY 1892

This is one of the oldest working coin presses in the world with a manufacturing date of 1891. President Paul Kruger, then the President of the old ZAR (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek) ordered two presses from Ludwig. Loew & Co. in Berlin, to be used at the first South African Mint and Bank established on Church Square, Pretoria.

 Press currently housed at the SA Mint

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DESCRIPTION FOR THE ANGLO BOER WAR COMMEMORATIVE GOLD SET

The Story of the Anglo BoerTold Across Six Medallions

Farewell

At the commencement of war in October 1899, the British forces garrisoned in South Africa, amounted to 20 000 men. Ultimately Britain and its main colonies of Australia, Canada and New Zealand sent 400 000 regular and volunteer contingents to fight in the war. The huge army relied on an extensive infrastructure of equipment and supplies that had to be shipped across the ocean and distributed by rail and wagon to the troops.

Paardeberg

The Western battlefront centered on Kimberley in the Northern Cape and east toward Bloemfontein, the capital of the Orange Free State Republic. The British army under Field Marshall Lord Roberts was 40 000 strong and engaged in a great flank march on Bloemfontein to bypass the Boer forces of General Piet Cronje entrenched at Magersfontein. On realising the British intentions, Cronje decided to uproot his force of 5 000 and retreat east along the Modder River to help block the British advance. Cronje's force was disabled by a large baggage train of supplies, and accompanying women and children, and decided to establish a redoubt at Paardeberg in the banks of the river to prevent being overrun by the enemy forces.

Spionkop

The reverse depicts the Battle of Spionkop at the time when the Eastern battle field centered on Ladysmith in Natal and along the border between Natal, Transvaal and the Orange Free State Republics. Ladysmith had been under seige by the Boers since the 2nd November 1899 and the British army, under the command of General Sir Redvers Buller, advancing from the south to relieve the town, met with heavy resistance from the Boers along the Tugela River. The second of these battles culminated in the Battle of Spionkop where the British were beaten for the second time. The hilly nature of the terrain was taken advantage of by the Boer Leader Louis Botha.

The Sieges

At the outbreak of the war in October 1899 the Boers besieged the three strategic towns of Kimberly, Mafeking and Ladysmith in an attempt to capture or at least preoccupy the British garrisons and thus weaken the ranks of the relatively small British force in South Africa at this time .  The sieges quickly became a non-win situation that went on for several months in each case before the towns were finally relieved. The boer's most famous seige weapon was their 155mm Creusot gun, christened Long Tom, which at 10 000 yards outranged the guns of the beseiged towns.

The Guerrilla Phase

After the capture of the Orange Free State and Transvaal capitals in March and May 1900 respectively , the main battle phase of the war was over and the Boer forces split into small groups to engage in guerilla activities to harass and disrupt the British occupation. The guerilla phase of the war lasted nearly twice as long as the conventional war phase.

The Peace Treaty

After two and a half years of fighting, the majority of the Boer leaders became resolved to the fact that they could not win a war against the huge resources of the British Empire, and they sought a settlement in order to rebuild their destroyed  homes and reunite devastated families. The Peace Treaty of Vereeniging was signed in Melrose House, Pretoria on the 31st May 1902. For both sides it was an overdue peace, as it had become a costly war for both parties concerned.

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