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The discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand in 1885 turned the South African Republic from an impoverished state dominated by farmers to one where fortunes could be made from mining. In 1892 President Kruger, facing an election campaign, ordered the building of a mint and the striking of the republic's first full coinage series.
A SOUGHT-AFTER VARIETY OF
RARE GRADED
Z A R COINAGE
HISTORIC COINAGE IN YOUR HANDS
PRESIDENT PAUL KRUGER
WAS THE THIRD PRESIDENT
OF WHAT WAS THEN KNOWN AS
THE ZUID AFRIKAANSCHE REPUBLIEK
SOUTH AFRICA'S GREAT RARITIES
COINS OF FINE PROVENANCE
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