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History In Your Hands

South African Coinage Is a Series Rich in History

'99' 
Overstamped

ZAR 

GOLD KRUGER POND

 ONLY 130  EVER MINTED

THIS NGC GRADED
 AU 58 
ZAR COIN
IS1OF ONLY 4 AT THIS GRADE IN THE NUMISMATIC GUARANTY CORPORATION POPULATION REPORT FOR SOUTH AFRICAN ZAR PONDE

  A COIN WITH A SIGNIFICANT HISTORY.  

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Details:

Diameter: 22mm

Mass: 7.988grams

Designer: Otto Schultz 

 Description:

The only date lacking for the one-pound series from 1892 through 1900 is 1899.  The Mint did not produce coins from January 1, 1898 through September 30, 1899.  It was reopened at that time to strike pound coins needed for the war against Great Britain, which had broken out over continued Boer frustration with British policies.  The dies dated 1899 were intercepted by the British en route to the Mint, so there was no option but to use ones dated 1898.  A normal output (137,000) of one-pound coins was produced, but some 130 pieces were then counterstamped below Kruger’s bust with the numerals ‘99’ to correctly identify their year of manufacture.  Why so few were counterstamped and why the Mint bothered to do this at all is still unclear; perhaps these pieces were reserved for assaying purposes.  They are very rare today, and counterfeits do exist.

The final issue of Pond coins was produced in the early months of 1900 from dies bearing that date (these managed to get through from Berlin).  Before Pretoria fell to the British on June 5, the ZAR’s capital was temporarily relocated to Middelburg, and all of the gold and silver stored in Pretoria was carried away to safety.  Wartime conditions prevented further coinage of the regular Kruger type of Pond and Half Pond, and this series ended in 1900.

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