You are bidding on the 2000 Mandela R5 and 2008 Mandela 90th Birthday coins.
These coins are becoming scarcer and scarcer. The 90th Birthday coin was sold for R 100 000.
World Coin News
Mandela continues to be profitable
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By Chris Woltermann
How did it happen that unpretentious business strikes of a common coin, one with a mintage of 5 million pieces, became $10,000 numismatic superstars less than five months after the coin began circulating? This is not a trick question, nor does its answer involve mint errors or rare die variations.
The coin is South Africa’s 2008 5 rand commemorating former president Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday. Released into circulation on July 18, 2008, many of the coins soon appeared in the offices of Professional Coin Grading Services and Numismatic Guaranty Corporation, two graders favored by South African collectors.
Only six examples have been graded as high as MS-68, all by PCGS. Three of these recently sold for R100,000, or about US$10,000, per coin.
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