Owner Comments:
Joint Finest Known PFUC! (1/105)
Total Graded: 207
Mintage: 1,939
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 2010 commemorative coin issue celebrates another Nobel Prize Laureate, Nadine Gordimer.
Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African writer and political activist. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognized as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has ... been of very great benefit to humanity".
Gordimer's writing dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa. Under that regime, works such as Burger's Daughter and July's People were banned. She was active in the anti-apartheid movement, joining the African National Congress during the days when the organization was banned, and gave Nelson Mandela advice on his famous 1964 defense speech at the trial which led to his conviction for life. She was also active in HIV/AIDS causes.
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: * 2010 *.
Designer: Arthur L. Sutherland (ALS)
Reverse
Frontal portrait of Gordimer
Lettering: Extracts of her writing and the denomination R1 to the right.
Designer: N van Niekerk (NVN)