Owner Comments:
Joint Finest Known! (1/6)
Total Graded: 83
Mintage: 1,544,301
This circulating One Rand silver coin was issued in 1967 to commemorate the death of Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd the previous year.
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (1901 - 1966), also commonly referred to as Dr. Verwoerd, was a South African politician, a scholar of applied psychology and sociology, and a journalist. Verwoerd played an instrumental role in socially engineering apartheid, the country's system of institutionalized racial segregation and implemented its policies as Minister of Native Affairs (1950 - 1958) and then prime minister (1958 - 1966). Furthermore, he played a vital role in helping the National Party come to power in 1948, serving as their political strategist and becoming party leader upon his premiership. He was the Union of South Africa's last prime minister, from 1958 to 1961, when he proclaimed the founding of the Republic of South Africa, remaining its prime minister until his assassination in 1966.
Obverse
The obverse of the 1967 coins depicts the bust of Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd (the first prime minister of the Republic of South Africa) facing right.
Below the shoulder truncation, the initials of the designer: T.S. (for Tommy Sasseen).
Around right, the legend SUID-AFRIKA in Afrikaans and the date of issue 1967.
Reverse
The reverse shows a Springbok antelope, jumping to the right.
Above the Springbok and to the left, the motto SOLI DEO GLORIA (translated from Latin: Glory to God alone).
Below, the value and denomination 1 RAND.
Below left, the artist's initials J. v. Z. (for Jan van Zyl).