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The Sterling Series Of South Africa 1923 -1950 "Gigantic Sleeper" Part 3

Not many collectors are fully aware of how many of the coins in this series were smelted 40+ years ago! If they did know many of these coins would be priceless. Read on for Part 3 of this journal. 1 Shilling South Africa: Similarly to the Half Crowns & the Florin or Two Shillings, the Shilling series was minted in a similar fashion and withdrawn in the same manner. The total mintage for the entire series' including the 10 cent series from 1961 to 1964 is stated as 60,098,029 and the tot

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The Sterling Series Of South Africa 1923 -1950 "Gigantic Sleeper" Part 2

Not many collectors are fully aware of how many of the coins in this series were smelted 40+ years ago! If they did know many of these coins would be priceless. Read on for Part 2 of this journal. Half Crowns(2.5 Shillings) South Africa: The Half Crown or 2.5 Shillings were minted in three series'. The first from 1923 to 1936 (King George V), the second from 1937 to 1952 (King George V), & the third from 1953 to 1960 (Queen Elizabeth II). The total mintage for the entire series' is state

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The Sterling Series Of South Africa 1923 -1950 "Gigantic Sleeper"

Not many collectors are fully aware of how many of the coins in this series were smelted 40+ years ago! If they did know many of these coins would be priceless. Read on for the facts. Looking at the mintage figures for any denomination & year in this series it does not seem like there are any exceedingly rare items save for the obvious ones such as the 1931 silver denominations but looks can be very deceiving, none more so than in this particular instance. To understand why this is so on

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The Union of South Africa Coinage Varieties & Population Statistics

Excerpts from my journals published in South Africa. The information will be focussed on the die varieties I have discovered as well as information on the possible population statistics based on the massive smelting that took place up to 1980. The following pages contain all the varieties I have discovered, logged and coded. To maintain a undisputable level of integrity as to the existence of these coins, I have kept every single coin in my personal collection. My work therefore can be verifie

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