Picked up these some time ago from our local flea market. They are pretty common, but still, I love all my coins equally Country South Africa Reference KM# 65.2 Denomination 1 Cent Year 1966 Material Bronze Weight 3 g Diameter 19.05 mm Thickness 1.57 mm Edge Reeded coarsely Mintage 50,157,000 Country South Africa Reference KM# 66.2 Denomination 2 Cents Year 1965 Material Bronze Weight 4 g Diameter 22.45 mm Thickness 1.71 mm Edge Reeded coarsely Mintage 29,887,000 The portrait you see on the obverse is of Jan van Riebeeck (21 April 1619 – 18 January 1677). He was a Dutch navigator and colonial administrator who arrived in Cape Town in what then became the Dutch Cape Colony of the Dutch East India Company. Jan van Riebeeck is of cultural and historical significance to South Africa. Many of the Afrikaner population (descendants of Dutch settlers first arriving at the Cape of Good Hope in the 17th and 18th centuries) view him as the founding father of their nation.
Nice coins. I like common coins as they are often the work horses of transactions. I live holding a coin and imagining how it was spent and who held it.
