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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Aidan Work, post: 201477, member: 1824&quot;]Clinker,the 1/10,1/4,&amp; 1/2 Krugerrand were introduced in 1980.However,in the 1980&#039;s,someone set up a private mint &amp; struck some commemorative Krugerrand pieces in .999 fine silver inscribed &#039;KRUGERRAND COMMEMORATIVE&#039; &amp; &#039;1967-1982&#039;.There have been other dates reported,especially the 1983,which I have got.</p><p><br /></p><p>The obverse of the silver Krugerrand is inscribed incorrectly as &#039;STEFANS JOHANNES KRUGER&#039;.There is no reference to South Africa anywhere on the coin.The portrait is in high relief.The silver Krugerrand is in coinage alignment.</p><p><br /></p><p>The pronking springbok design was not by George Kruger-Gray (as he had died in 1943),but by Coert Steynberg,who was a famous South African sculptor who died in around 1982.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Rand replaced the South African Pound in February 1961,whereas,the Republic of South Africa was declared by the then Prime Minister,Hendrik Verwoerd on the 31st of May 1961 &amp; South Africa was forced out of the British Commonwealth as a result.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Krugerrand is the only South African coin whose basic design hasn&#039;t changed even after the return of South Africa to the British Commonwealth in 1994.There has been a few privy marks &amp; mintmarks added to the Krugerrand from time to time,but these mintmarked &amp; privy marked coins are pretty scarce.</p><p><br /></p><p>Aidan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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