10 Times 10 Years Of Freedom R2 Coins !!

The main feature of the special design, on the reverse of this coin, is the “Ten years of Freedom” logo. The logo comprises a stylised design of a long winding line of people, with the two people at the front holding up the flag of the Republic of South Africa. The words “10 YEARS OF FREEDOM” and “south africa 1994-2004” appear around this central design. The rest of the reverse comprise just the denomination “2 RAND”, and die-sinker’s initials “M J S” for M J Scheepers. Some further information on the “Ten years of Freedom” logo can be found at http://www.splashfestival.com/article.asp?newsID=24 .

    The obverse of this coin also differs from that of the normal R2 coins with date 2004. The special R2 coins have just “SOUTH” to the left of the coat of arms and “AFRICA” to the right. Standard design R2 coins of 2004 have “Afurika Tshipembe” (language - Tshivenda) to the left of the coat of arms and “iSewula Afrika” (language - isiNdebele) to the right. South Africa has 11 official languages and from those there are 10 ways to spell the country’s name. Since 2002, those 10 spellings have been used in rotation, for the country name on the circulation coins i.e. the 5, 10, 20 and 50 Cent, 1 , 2 and 5 Rand. The country name appears in each of two different languages on the Rand denominated coins and in one language on each of the other coins. The “Ten Years of Freedom” coin is the fourth circulating commemorative coin since the start of 2002. The first three were 50 Cent 2002 Football, 1 Rand 2002 Johannesburg World Summit, 50 Cent 2003 Cricket. Those three followed the country names cycle for normal circulation coins. The new R2 circulating commemorative coin does not follow this cycle. The use of just English language for the country name on the new R2 follows the case of the South African precious metal collector coins of the last several years