Owner Comments:
Joint Finest Known and difficult in high grades! (1/2)
Total Graded: 47
Mintage: 2,128
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 1996 commemorative issue celebrated the New Constitution of 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: * 1996 *.
Designer: Arthur L. Sutherland (ALS)
Reverse
A symbolic open book representing the new constitution of South Africa with a constitutional logo on the left page and a hand holding a pen signing the constitution book on the right. Around and inside the landing, symbolic figures representing the population, all joined representing unity. The hand also symbolizing the hand of the people which is embodied in the unity of the figures.
Top center PROTEA, and at the bottom 1 RAND.
Designer: Susan Erasmus