Bullion value: ZAR 224.45
Actual silver weight: 5.650 g
Current silver price: 39.73 ZAR/g
Coin Twenty Cents 1963
Twenty Cents 1963: Details
Country South Africa
Currency Rand
Coin Type Twenty Cents, Silver
Issued 1963
Portrait Jan van Riebeeck (facing)
Reverse Coat of Arms of South Africa, 1910
Face Value 20 (x Cent)
Circulation Mintage 4,380,000 (4.4 million)
Total Mintage 4,384,025 (4.4 million)
Current No; withdrawn 1965
Material 0.500 Silver
Designer George Kruger Gray, Willie Myburg
Technology Milled (machine-made)
Shape Round
Orientation Medal Alignment (Axis 0)
Size 28.7000 mm
Thickness 2.4000 mm
Mass 11.3100 g
The obverse features the portrait of Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck, known as Jan van Riebeeck (1619-1677), Dutch colonial administrator and founder of Cape Town and considered by many people to be the founding father of the South African nation. The designer's initials WM (for Willie Myburg) are incuse on the shoulder truncation.
Around left, the motto UNITY IS STRENGTH in English; separated from that by two decorative rosettes, around right the same in Afrikaans: EENDRAG MAAK MAG.
The reverse design of the coin continues the original reverse of the pre-decimal two shillings and shows at its centre the shield of the Coat of Arms of South Africa, without the crest and supporters. The shield is quartered, and each quarter is a symbol of one of the four provinces of South Africa at the time the shield was granted by King George V in 1910. An ox wagon represents Transvaal Province, a woman with an anchor represents Cape Province, two wildebeests represent Natal Province and an orange tree represents the Orange Free State Province.
Below the shield, divided by its tip, the designer's initials KG (for George Kruger Gray).
Above, the date of issue: + 1963 +.
Around left and around right, respectively the legend SOUTH AFRICA in English and SUID-AFRIKA in Afrikaans.
Around below, flanked by two rosettes, the value and denomination * 20 c. * (Twenty Cents).
