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Details:
1 Penny Mass: 9.45 grams Diameter: 30.80 mm Metal: Copper
3 PenceMass: 1.41 grams Diameter: 16.30 mm Metal: Silver (1892 – 1897)
6 Pence Mass: 2.83grams Diameter: 19.35 mm Metal: Silver (1892 – 1897)
1 Shilling Mass: 5.65 grams Diameter: 23.70 mm Metal: Silver (1892 – 1897)
2 ShillingMass: 11.31 grams Diameter: 28.70 mm Metal: Silver (1892 – 1897)
2/6 Half Crown Mass: 14.13 grams Diameter: 32.30 mm Metal: Silver (1892 – 1897)
5 Crown Mass: 28.27 grams Diameter: 38.80 mm Metal: Silver (1862 – Only)
1/2 Pond/Pound Mass: 3.99 grams Diameter: 19.40 mm Metal: Gold (1892 – 1897)
1 Pond/Pound (Normal Issue)
Mass: 7.99 grams Diameter: 22.00 mm Metal: Gold (1892 – 1902)
1 Pond/Pound (Blank Without a Rim)
Mass: 7.99 grams Diameter: 22.16 mm Metal: Gold (1892 – 1902)
1 Pond/Pound (Blank With a Rim)
Mass: 7.99 grams Diameter: 22.65 mm Metal: Gold (1892 – 1902)
Description:
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.
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