Owner Comments:
Joint Finest Known PFUC! (1/131)
Total Graded: 697
Mintage: 7,143
Part of the PROTEA SERIES for the S1R.
The South African Mint released attractive designs and special themes to commemorate special events or awards. Each reverse bears a different design based on the theme for that year.
The 2007 issue continues with the South African Nobel Prize winners commemorative coin series.
Frederik Willem de Klerk (18 March 1936 – 11 November 2021) was a South African politician who served as state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as deputy president from 1994 to 1996. As South Africa's last head of state from the era of white-minority rule, he and his government dismantled the apartheid system and introduced universal suffrage. Ideologically a conservative and an economic liberal, he led the National Party (NP) from 1989 to 1997.
De Klerk received many awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize for dismantling apartheid and bringing universal suffrage to South Africa.
Obverse
The obverse has an image of the King Protea (Protea cynaroides), the national flower of South Africa.
Centered top, the name of the country in English: SOUTH AFRICA.
Below, the date of issue: * 2007 *.
Designer: Arthur L. Sutherland (ALS)
Reverse
A frontal image of FW De Klerk.
Lettering: R1; 1993 Nobel Laureate inscriptions.
Designer: A. Minnie (AM)