New Coin Issues

South Africa to Circulate Multilingual Coins

Earlier this year, the Cabinet of South Africa announced their approval of proposed changes to the country’s coinage, which will involve all 11 official languages featuring on its coins on an annual rotating basis. The programme is scheduled to run over the next 10 years.

Although the current 1, 2 and 5 rand coins have featured the country’s name in two languages on a rotating basis since 2002, all coins in the series will feature varying languages. Three languages will feature on the 5 rand coin; two on the 2 rand, 50, 20 and 10 cent coins, with one language only featuring on the 1 rand coin.

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