Owner Comments:
Joint Finest Known PFUC! (1/67)
Total Graded: 262
Mintage: 2,016
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 2005 issue kicks-off a series of commemorative coins celebrating South African Nobel Prize winners.
Albert John Luthuli (c. 1898 – 21 July 1967) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, traditional leader, and politician who served as the President-General of the African National Congress from 1952 until his death in 1967.
In 1961, Luthuli was awarded the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in leading the nonviolent anti-apartheid movement. Luthuli's supporters brand him as a global icon of peace similar to Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr, the latter of whom was a follower and admirer of Luthuli.
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: * 2005 *.
Designer: Arthur L. Sutherland (ALS)
Reverse
A frontal face of Albert Luthuli, and to the right, a seated Luthuli busy reading.
Lettering: R1; Date 1898-1967 and 1960 Nobel Laureate inscriptions.
Designer: N. van Niekerk (NVN)