History of the Nickel Coins of South Africa
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TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR FAIR PRICES GREAT FATHER'S DAY SPECIAL CHOOSE THIS AWESOME BOOK WRITTEN BY FRANCOIS MALAN HISTORY OF THE NICKEL COINS OF SOUTH AFRICA AND GIVE Y0UR DAD A GREAT FATHER'S DAY GIFT ON THE 15TH JUNE 2014 images are generic - composite image strictly copyright of Randburg Coin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ GET YOUR DAD THIS GREAT OFFER FOR FATHERS DAY USUALLY SELLS FOR R 450 NOW ONLYR 400INCLUSIVE OF POSTAGE THIS IS A THOROUGHLY RESEARCHED ACCOUNT OF THE NICKEL COIN SERIES OF SOUTH AFRICA, THE DECISION MAKING PROCESS, DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT, OF OUR UNIQUE COINAGE. A BOOK THAT NUMISMATIC ENTHUSIASTS AND COLLECTORS HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR. WE BELIEVE THIS SELLING PRICE TO BE FAIR - A GREAT PRICE OPPORTUNITY TO OBTAIN THIS MAGNIFICENT BOOK - LIMITED STOCK - CALL TO CONFIRM AVAILABILITY AN EXTRACT FROM THE PREFACE OF THE BOOK Preface The nickel coin series (also known as the Second Decimal Series by coin collectors) is currently the “Cinderella” series of South African Numismatics. In spite of the extreme rarity of a few of the coins, they currently do not command the very high prices fetched by some of the more glamorous coins such as the 1931 tickey. Coin collecting goes hand in hand with good reference books and a comprehensive book describing the history of this coin series has not been produced yet. Several good catalogues listing the coins and recommended selling prices are available, but information and photographs of the die-sinkers, the artists and the old Mint in Visagie Street in Pretoria are extremely difficult to find. The late Dr. Frank Mitchell produced a number of key articles on this coin series in the late sixties, but these articles have become collectibles in their own right and they are not generally available anymore. As it is difficult to find good reference material on this series, the author attempted to compile a comprehensive book describing the history of the coins ---------------------------------------------------------------- Father’s Day was inaugurated in the United States in the early 20th century to complement Mother’s Day in celebrating fatherhood and male parenting. After the success obtained by Anna Jarvis with the promotion of Mother’s Day in the US, some wanted to create similar holidays for other family members, and Father’s Day was the choice most likely to succeed. There were other persons in the US who independently thought of “Father’s Day”, but the credit for the modern holiday is often given to Sonora Dodd, who was the driving force behind its establishment. Father’s Day was founded in Spokane, Washington at the YMCA in 1910 by Sonora Smart Dodd, who was born in Arkansas. Its first celebration was in the Spokane YMCA on June 19, 1910. Her father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there. After hearing a sermon about Jarvis’ Mother’s Day in 1909, she told her pastor that fathers should have a similar holiday honoring them.Although she initially suggested June 5, her father’s birthday, the pastors did not have enough time to prepare their sermons, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June. In the 1930s Dodd returned to Spokane and started promoting the celebration again, raising awareness at a national level. She had the help of those trade groups that would benefit most from the holiday, for example the manufacturers of ties, tobacco pipes, and any traditional present to fathers. Since 1938 she had the help of the Father’s Day Council, founded by the New York Associated Men’s Wear Retailers to consolidate and systematize the commercial promotion. Americans resisted the holiday during a few decades, perceiving it as just an attempt by merchants to replicate the commercial success of Mother’s Day. But the trade groups did not give up: they kept promoting it and even incorporated the jokes into their adverts, and they eventually succeeded. By the mid-1980s the Father’s Council wrote that [Father’s Day] has become a Second Christmas for all the men’s gift-oriented industries. A bill to accord national recognition of the holiday was introduced in Congress in 1913. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson went to Spokane to speak in a Father’s Day celebration and wanted to make it official, but Congress resisted, fearing that it would become commercialized. US President Calvin Coolidge recommended in 1924 that the day be observed by the nation, but stopped short of issuing a national proclamation. Two earlier attempts to formally recognize the holiday had been defeated by Congress. In 1957, Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith wrote a proposal accusing Congress of ignoring fathers for 40 years while honoring mothers, thus “[singling] out just one of our two parents”. In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation honoring fathers, designating the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day. Six years later, the day was made a permanent national holiday when President Richard Nixon signed it into law in 1972. In addition to Father’s Day, International Men’s Day is celebrated in many countries on November 19 for men and boys who are not fathers.SOURCE WIKIPEDIA --------------------------------------------------------------- TO RESERVE THIS OFFER EXPIRES ON THE 6th JUNE 2014 E & OE - Subject to our terms and conditions: KINDLY NOTE: Payment methods we accept are - cash upon collection or bank transfer only on this promotion. |
